EASTERN MIRROR WWW.EASTERNMIRRORNAGALAND.COM Neiphiu Rio speaking during an event in Dimapur on Saturday. EM Images SPORTS NATION Rahul Gandhi has seriously hurt image of Indian politician before the world — Jaitley | P8 Without unity, Naga rights will be suppressed – Rio RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 VOL. XVII NO. 199 | PAGES 12 ` 5/- DIMAPUR, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2018 Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): A united people will achieve their dreams and their rights shall be secure. However, a divided people will experi- ence supression, including supression of their rights, for which unity is impera- tive, Nagaland’s Chief Min- ister Neiphiu Rio said on Saturday. “When we are united, our dreams can come true. Our rights can be achieved. But if we are divided, we are not united. Our wishes will be just a dream; our rights will be suppressed and therefore, unity is a must,” Rio said in his address to a dedication programme for a new complex, Tenyimi mar- ket complex, in Dimapur on July 21. The programme was organised by the Tenyimi Union of Dimapur (TUD). Dimapur is known as the commercial city of Na- galand. The city is inhabited by ethnic peoples besides those from the subconti- nent. Referring to this fact, the CM said, “Dimapur is not only a miniature of Na- galand but a miniature of India.” He was hopeful that the complex would be a “blessed place for entrepre- neurs” and for all commer- cial activities that take place there, in the future. Encouraging the Tenyi- mi union, Rio asserted that, ‘It is not the end, but the beginning of unity.’ Unions are relevant for tribal com- munities today as they help in building a strong com- munity by forging a com- mon ground as one “Naga,” Rio said. The Tenyimi union was formed not because of necessity but because of brotherhood and for it be- ing a family historically, Rio maintained. He urged the Tenyimi community not to be confined only to itself but to ‘come out and build a stronger’ Naga community. Rio likened the state’s tribes to pillars. “Each tribe is like a pillar in the build- ing. A strong pillar, a strong tribal hoho put together can build a strong Naga house,” he said. Therefore, he said, unity is the need of the times. The question of state economy The most important aspect to Dimapur’s growth will be unity and harmonous co- existence that can create an environment conducive to business. The reason is that, “When Dimapur prospers, Nagaland will prosper,” the CM opined. He congratulat- ed the TUD for establishing the commercial complex as ‘not only will it the ben- efit Tenyimi but will benefit everyone.’ Rio mentioned his awk- ward encounters with que- ries related to the state’s economy. He recounted ENTERTAINMENT Willie Nelson to release Frank Sinatra tribute album ‘My Way’ | P10 Warner returns to action in Australia; eyes national recall | P11 meetings with national or world leaders that saw mat- ters relating to the state;s affairs and economy dis- cussed. The questions that arise mostly include mat- ter about what Nagaland’s economy is, or what its source of income is and whether there are busi- ness opportunities, Rio ex- plained. He confessed that being a state leader, such questions become “very embarrassing” and “diffi- cult” to answer. “We have to rebuild our culture. We have to learn how to do business and we have to have economic activities,” he said. Econo- my will be good only when the people decide to work or do something useful, he said. He had an advice for the gathering: ‘If you want to be a proud Naga, earn, save, spend, and be a proud person.’ He hoped that the complex would be a place for new beginning of economic activities for the Naga people. The Naga political negotiations Speaking about the pro- longed political negotiations of the Naga groups with India, Rio said that the ‘Naga areas is a genuine demand’ and one which even the gov- ernment of India recognises. ‘However, it has not been possible maybe because we are not united, or our rights have been suppressed,’ he said and urged the people to play proactive roles to achieve the aspiration of the people. Iterating the National- ist Democratic Progressive Party’s objective to fight for Naga integration, Rio as- sured: “We will be an active facilitator” for a settlement which includes “honoura- ble, acceptable, inclusive.” If the Naga people are united, any settlement that comes will be more honourable, more acceptable, and there- fore we talked about the settlement of inclusiveness,” Rio maintained. However, Rio had concerns that ‘in paper, we show our unity but in reality we are not cohesive and still lack the strength of unity.’ Response to Manipur CM’s statement In response to the ‘threat- ening’ statement made by Manipur’s chief minister over ‘Naga integration,’ Rio stated, “I want to appeal that they (Manipur) must support the Nagas. They must respect the rights of the Nagas as we’ll also re- spect their rights.” As neigh- bours, the states need to ‘co-exist in peace so that we can forge together forward for all round development. We should have harmony and brotherhood with each other in different states,’ the CM said. “They can speak for themselves, but they can- not speak for us. They can- not decide for us. We have to determine our fate,” he said. NSCN (IM) says it has not yielded on Naga integration Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Even as various news reports in the national and local dallies con- tinue to raise questions over the Indo-Naga talks, the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (IM) has sought to clear the confusion. In a press release that was issued on Saturday, the group stated that ‘at no pint of time’ had it softened its stand on the issues of Naga history, identity, ‘rights including integration of all Naga areas, let alone accepting the In- dian constitution.’ It cited an interview of RN Ravi, the government of India’s interlocutor, in which he went on record: "The Framework Agree- ment signed on August 3, 2015 lays down the fundamental prin- ciples of our relationship. It fully respects the Nagas' aspirations of recognition of their unique- ness and commits both sides to a peaceful co-existence in an insep- arably inclusive relationship on the basis of sharing the mutually agreed sovereign powers. Within this Framework, details are being worked out." According to the NSCN (IM), the ‘recognition of Nagas' unique history and situation, and the Framework Agreement in essence implies the important steps taken toward solution through mutual respect by both the entities.’ “When the negotiating parties are fully committed to working out a solution that is acceptable to both, it is mandatory that the parties must exercise integrity, and restrain any agencies trying to derail the political negotiation.” The relations between the Na- gas and the government of India, it warned, will be based on the agreement that would be arrived at. “The agreement should not be distorted by anyone for per- sonal benefits. The NSCN and the Gol have taken sufficient steps, including the Framework Agree- ment, to conclude the negotiation that is honourable to both. “The NSCN will not betray the steps that have already been taken. Our position is clear to the end. We are serious, and we are careful, as we know that the righteous can do nothing if the foundation is destroyed. Lasting peace between India and the Na- gas will equally benefit all in the region. We are prepared and we shall stand to the last,” the state- ment read. GST Council cuts rate on 88 items; simplifies return filing New Delhi, July 21 (PTI): The GST Council today cut tax rates on 88 items, including footwear, refrigerator, washing machine and small screen TV, while the widely demanded sanitary napkins have been exempted from the levy. The highest tax bracket of 28 per cent has been ration- alised further with rates on daily-use items like perfumes, cosmetics, toiletries, hair dry- ers, shavers, mixer grinder, vacuum cleaners, lithium ion batteries, being lowered to 18 per cent. The revised tax rates will come into effect from July 27. "Every state wanted that the rates on these items be low- ered so that the middle income households are benefitted ... It has also been decided that the GST Council will rise above revenue consideration and focus more on job creation and economic growth," Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said. Refrigerator, washing ma- chine, small screen TV, storage water heaters, paints and var- nishes, will henceforth attract 18 per cent GST as against 28 per cent at present. Tax rate on ethanol has been slashed to 5 per cent from 18 per cent at present. Footwear costing up to Rs 1,000 will now attract 5 per cent GST. So far, footwear up to Rs 500 attracted 5 per cent GST, and those having retail sale price of over Rs 500 attracted 18 per cent rate. Sanitary Napkins, which attract 12 per cent tax, and for- tified milk, which was taxed at 18 per cent, have been exempt from the new indirect tax. Also idols made of stone, marble, wood, rakhi not em- bedded with stone, phool jhadu, sal leaves, too have been exempted. "GST Council today ap- proved reduction in rates of 88 goods and services. Money in the hands of all sections of so- ciety — the poor, households, women, farmers and senior citizens," Goyal tweeted late night. Earlier, in the press confer- ence the minister had said that the rates were rationalised on 100 items. In his first GST Council meeting since he took charge as the Finance Minister in May this year, Goyal also allowed businesses with turnover of up to Rs 5 crore to file quarterly returns -- a move which will benefit 93 per cent of the GST registered taxpayers. They will have to, however, pay taxes monthly. So far, businesses with turnover of up to Rs 1.5 crore were permitted to file returns quarterly. "Today's meeting has taken a number of decisions unani- mously. Simplification and rationalisation has been given maximum priority," Goyal said while briefing reporters after the 28th GST Council meeting here. Asked about the revenue impact of the tax rate cut, Goyal said it will only be "nominal". "With simplification, there will be compliance buoyancy and the overall assessment will show that the revenue impact is marginal," he said, adding the revenue foregone is for the good of consumers. Sources, however, said the tax rate reduction is likely to cost around Rs 8,000-10,000 crore annually to the excheq- uer. In the services sector, the hotel industry too has been given major relief as GST on accommodation service will now be based on transaction value instead of declared value. GST at the rate of 28 per cent in levied if hotel room rent exceeds Rs 7,500. Between Rs 2,500 to below Rs 7,500 GST is levied at 18 per cent and that of Rs 1,000 and below Rs 2,500 it is 12 per cent. Also, the tax rate on supply of e-books has been cut to 5 per cent from 18 per cent. Union Minister Arun Jaitley said the rate reduction will go a long way in pushing productiv- ity upward. "This is a major step to- wards rationalising the 28 per cent tax slab, which has been narrowed to only a few commodities in the past 13 months," Jaitley tweeted. The Council has also de- cided to defer implementation of reverse charge mechanism (RCM) by a year to September 30, 2019. The RCM, which was already on hold till September 2018, is considered as an anti- evasion tool. The Council has also cleared over 40 amendments, including increasing threshold for composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore and allowing multiple registration for businesses, to the GST law. The next meeting of the Council is slated on August 4, which will discuss issues relat- ing to the MSME sector as well as ways to incentivise digital transaction via Rupay cards and BHIM app. A Committee led by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi will look into ways to pro- mote digital payments using these modes. Also a chance will be given till August 31 for businesses to migrate to the GST regime and late fee would be waived, Goyal said. EY Partner Abhishek Jain said: "Reduction in ethanol GST rate for use by oil com- panies is welcome as major petroleum products are out- side GST, and this should help reduce their cost". This is the fourth time since the roll out of the GST that the Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister and com- prising state counterparts, has rationalised rates. In its meeting in November last year, the Council had re- duced rates in over 178 items in the 28 per cent tax bracket. TS Angami is the NPSC’s new chairman Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The government of Nagaland has appointed TS Angami the chairman of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), and A Wopen Lotha a member of the commission. A Raj Bhavan press release informed that the duo was ‘inducted’ by the governor on Saturday. Angami retired as the director of the New and Renewable Energy depart- ment, while Lotha retired as the commis- sioner and secretary of Home and IPR, according to the press release. Two arrested for raping 19-yr- old Naga woman in Delhi The woman came in contact with one of the accused on a dang app, who asked her to meet him at his residence New Delhi, July 21 (PTI): A 19-year-old woman from Nagaland was allegedly raped by two men in Dwar- ka's Kakrola area, the police said on July 21. The woman came in contact with one of the accused on a dating app, who asked her to meet him at his residence. Accompanied by her friend, she was picked up by the duo in a car from a street near Ramphal Chowk, Sec- tor 2 Dwarka, on Tuesday night. They took her to a flat in Kakrola Housing Com- plex where she was raped, a senior police officer said. The woman ap- proached the police in the early hours on Wednesday about the incident, he said. In her statement to the police, the woman alleged that the accused raped her in the flat. The woman's friend was not targeted by the accused. A case was registered in the matter and the accused were arrested on Friday, the officer said. A view of the kitchen inside Plaza bakery in Dimapur. EM Images Plaza bakery and Modern ice cream factory ordered to shut down Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): One of Dimapur’s oldest and most well known bakeries, and an ice-cream factory in Dimapur have been ordered to shut down for improvement be- cause of unhygienic conditions they reportedly operate in. The development comes after food safety officers and members of the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industries, and the Naga Council of Di- mapur inspected bakeries and industrial units in an around Dimapur town. Confirming the news to Eastern Mirror, Food Safety Commissioner (FSC) Himato Zhimomi said he was 'extreme- ly shocked' to see the condition of Plaza bakery’s kitchen. Plaza is considered one of the oldest bakeries in Dimapur town. The bakery's kitchen, he said, was in extremely un- hygienic and unacceptable condition. "We trust their trade as one of the oldest bakery in town and they have betrayed our trust. We are not eating for free but they have been tak- ing us for ride by functioning in an unhygienic kitchen to their customers," remarked Zhimomi. The bakery's kitchen needs extensive renovation and will have to stay shut until they are ready with hygienic conditions, the authorities said. If not, their trade license will be revoked, Zhimomi said. The same applies to Modern ice-cream factory, which has been ordered to shut down and renovate with hygienic condition, the FSC informed. The traders and sellers cannot take consumers for granted. Both the parties will be given a notice and if they fail to comply with it, they will be asked to shut down and their trade licenses revoked, Zhimomi added. A clean Nagaland The chief minister also spoke about hygiene and cleanliness in Nagaland. “We can easily maintain cleanliness,” he said, and appealed to citizens to contribute in making the state free from plastic, by November. Raising concerns at the ex- cessive use of plastic in the state, Rio said “We have to give a substitute to the use of plastic.” The state’s government is deliberating on the issue and have a few suggestions to solve the problem, the gathering was told. Some of the alterna- tives include bamboo baskets, and paper bags, which are biodegradable. The president of the TUD, Khalo Kapfo, said in his address that the union had bought a plot of land in 2001. The project began in July 2013. It consists of 81 rooms, 200 sq ft per room. He said that the complex will be given out on lease for a period of 25 years. After the completion of 25 years, the ownership will revert to the union. It was informed that the daily Sunday market will be open at the com- plex. 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Neiphiu Rio speaking during an event in Dimapur on Saturday. EM Images
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Without unity, Naga rights will be suppressed – Rio RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906VOL. XVII NO. 199 | PAGES 12 ` 5/- DIMAPUR, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2018
Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, July 21 (EMN): A united people will achieve their dreams and their rights shall be secure. However, a divided people will experi-ence supression, including supression of their rights, for which unity is impera-tive, Nagaland’s Chief Min-ister Neiphiu Rio said on Saturday.
“When we are united, our dreams can come true. Our rights can be achieved. But if we are divided, we are not united. Our wishes will be just a dream; our rights will be suppressed and therefore, unity is a must,” Rio said in his address to a dedication programme for a new complex, Tenyimi mar-ket complex, in Dimapur on July 21. The programme was organised by the Tenyimi Union of Dimapur (TUD).
Dimapur is known as the commercial city of Na-galand. The city is inhabited by ethnic peoples besides those from the subconti-nent. Referring to this fact, the CM said, “Dimapur is not only a miniature of Na-galand but a miniature of India.” He was hopeful that the complex would be a “blessed place for entrepre-neurs” and for all commer-cial activities that take place there, in the future.
Encouraging the Tenyi-mi union, Rio asserted that, ‘It is not the end, but the beginning of unity.’ Unions
are relevant for tribal com-munities today as they help in building a strong com-munity by forging a com-mon ground as one “Naga,” Rio said.
The Tenyimi union was formed not because of necessity but because of brotherhood and for it be-ing a family historically, Rio maintained. He urged the Tenyimi community not to be confined only to itself but to ‘come out and build a stronger’ Naga community.
Rio likened the state’s tribes to pillars. “Each tribe is like a pillar in the build-ing. A strong pillar, a strong tribal hoho put together can build a strong Naga house,” he said. Therefore, he said, unity is the need of the times.
The question of state economyThe most important aspect to Dimapur’s growth will be unity and harmonous co-existence that can create an environment conducive to business. The reason is that, “When Dimapur prospers, Nagaland will prosper,” the CM opined. He congratulat-ed the TUD for establishing the commercial complex as ‘not only will it the ben-efit Tenyimi but will benefit everyone.’
Rio mentioned his awk-ward encounters with que-ries related to the state’s economy. He recounted
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meetings with national or world leaders that saw mat-ters relating to the state;s affairs and economy dis-cussed. The questions that arise mostly include mat-ter about what Nagaland’s economy is, or what its source of income is and whether there are busi-ness opportunities, Rio ex-plained. He confessed that being a state leader, such
questions become “very embarrassing” and “diffi-cult” to answer.
“We have to rebuild our culture. We have to learn how to do business and we have to have economic activities,” he said. Econo-my will be good only when the people decide to work or do something useful, he said. He had an advice for the gathering: ‘If you
want to be a proud Naga, earn, save, spend, and be a proud person.’ He hoped that the complex would be a place for new beginning of economic activities for the Naga people.
The Naga political negotiationsSpeaking about the pro-longed political negotiations of the Naga groups with
India, Rio said that the ‘Naga areas is a genuine demand’ and one which even the gov-ernment of India recognises. ‘However, it has not been possible maybe because we are not united, or our rights have been suppressed,’ he said and urged the people to play proactive roles to achieve the aspiration of the people.
Iterating the National-
ist Democratic Progressive Party’s objective to fight for Naga integration, Rio as-sured: “We will be an active facilitator” for a settlement which includes “honoura-ble, acceptable, inclusive.” If the Naga people are united, any settlement that comes will be more honourable, more acceptable, and there-fore we talked about the settlement of inclusiveness,” Rio maintained. However, Rio had concerns that ‘in paper, we show our unity but in reality we are not cohesive and still lack the strength of unity.’
Response to Manipur CM’s statementIn response to the ‘threat-ening’ statement made by Manipur’s chief minister over ‘Naga integration,’ Rio stated, “I want to appeal that they (Manipur) must support the Nagas. They must respect the rights of the Nagas as we’ll also re-spect their rights.” As neigh-bours, the states need to ‘co-exist in peace so that we can forge together forward for all round development. We should have harmony and brotherhood with each other in different states,’ the CM said.
“They can speak for themselves, but they can-not speak for us. They can-not decide for us. We have to determine our fate,” he said.
NSCN (IM) says it has not yielded on Naga integration Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Even as various news reports in the national and local dallies con-tinue to raise questions over the Indo-Naga talks, the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalim (IM) has sought to clear the confusion.
In a press release that was issued on Saturday, the group stated that ‘at no pint of time’ had it softened its stand on the issues of Naga history, identity, ‘rights including integration of all Naga areas, let alone accepting the In-dian constitution.’
It cited an interview of RN Ravi, the government of India’s interlocutor, in which he went on record: "The Framework Agree-ment signed on August 3, 2015 lays down the fundamental prin-ciples of our relationship. It fully respects the Nagas' aspirations of recognition of their unique-ness and commits both sides to a peaceful co-existence in an insep-arably inclusive relationship on the basis of sharing the mutually agreed sovereign powers. Within this Framework, details are being worked out."
According to the NSCN (IM), the ‘recognition of Nagas' unique history and situation, and the
Framework Agreement in essence implies the important steps taken toward solution through mutual respect by both the entities.’
“When the negotiating parties are fully committed to working out a solution that is acceptable to both, it is mandatory that the parties must exercise integrity, and restrain any agencies trying to derail the political negotiation.”
The relations between the Na-gas and the government of India, it warned, will be based on the agreement that would be arrived at. “The agreement should not be distorted by anyone for per-sonal benefits. The NSCN and the Gol have taken sufficient steps, including the Framework Agree-ment, to conclude the negotiation that is honourable to both.
“The NSCN will not betray the steps that have already been taken. Our position is clear to the end. We are serious, and we are careful, as we know that the righteous can do nothing if the foundation is destroyed. Lasting peace between India and the Na-gas will equally benefit all in the region. We are prepared and we shall stand to the last,” the state-ment read.
GST Council cuts rate on 88 items; simplifies return filingNew Delhi, July 21 (PTI): The GST Council today cut tax rates on 88 items, including footwear, refrigerator, washing machine and small screen TV, while the widely demanded sanitary napkins have been exempted from the levy.
The highest tax bracket of 28 per cent has been ration-alised further with rates on daily-use items like perfumes, cosmetics, toiletries, hair dry-ers, shavers, mixer grinder, vacuum cleaners, lithium ion batteries, being lowered to 18 per cent. The revised tax rates will come into effect from July 27.
"Every state wanted that the rates on these items be low-ered so that the middle income households are benefitted ... It has also been decided that the GST Council will rise above revenue consideration and focus more on job creation and economic growth," Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said.
Refrigerator, washing ma-chine, small screen TV, storage water heaters, paints and var-nishes, will henceforth attract 18 per cent GST as against 28 per cent at present.
Tax rate on ethanol has
been slashed to 5 per cent from 18 per cent at present.
Footwear costing up to Rs 1,000 will now attract 5 per cent GST. So far, footwear up to Rs 500 attracted 5 per cent GST, and those having retail sale price of over Rs 500 attracted 18 per cent rate.
Sanitary Napkins, which attract 12 per cent tax, and for-tified milk, which was taxed at 18 per cent, have been exempt from the new indirect tax.
Also idols made of stone, marble, wood, rakhi not em-bedded with stone, phool jhadu, sal leaves, too have been exempted.
"GST Council today ap-proved reduction in rates of 88 goods and services. Money in the hands of all sections of so-ciety — the poor, households, women, farmers and senior citizens," Goyal tweeted late night.
Earlier, in the press confer-ence the minister had said that the rates were rationalised on 100 items.
In his first GST Council meeting since he took charge as the Finance Minister in May this year, Goyal also allowed businesses with turnover of up
to Rs 5 crore to file quarterly returns -- a move which will benefit 93 per cent of the GST registered taxpayers. They will have to, however, pay taxes monthly.
So far, businesses with turnover of up to Rs 1.5 crore were permitted to file returns quarterly.
"Today's meeting has taken a number of decisions unani-mously. Simplification and rationalisation has been given maximum priority," Goyal said while briefing reporters after the 28th GST Council meeting here.
Asked about the revenue impact of the tax rate cut, Goyal said it will only be "nominal".
"With simplification, there will be compliance buoyancy and the overall assessment will show that the revenue impact is marginal," he said, adding the revenue foregone is for the good of consumers.
Sources, however, said the tax rate reduction is likely to cost around Rs 8,000-10,000 crore annually to the excheq-uer.
In the services sector, the hotel industry too has been given major relief as GST on
accommodation service will now be based on transaction value instead of declared value.
GST at the rate of 28 per cent in levied if hotel room rent exceeds Rs 7,500. Between Rs 2,500 to below Rs 7,500 GST is levied at 18 per cent and that of Rs 1,000 and below Rs 2,500 it is 12 per cent.
Also, the tax rate on supply of e-books has been cut to 5 per cent from 18 per cent.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley said the rate reduction will go a long way in pushing productiv-ity upward.
"This is a major step to-wards rationalising the 28 per cent tax slab, which has been narrowed to only a few commodities in the past 13 months," Jaitley tweeted.
The Council has also de-cided to defer implementation of reverse charge mechanism (RCM) by a year to September 30, 2019. The RCM, which was already on hold till September 2018, is considered as an anti-evasion tool.
The Council has also cleared over 40 amendments, including increasing threshold for composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore and allowing multiple
registration for businesses, to the GST law.
The next meeting of the Council is slated on August 4, which will discuss issues relat-ing to the MSME sector as well as ways to incentivise digital transaction via Rupay cards and BHIM app.
A Committee led by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi will look into ways to pro-mote digital payments using these modes.
Also a chance will be given till August 31 for businesses to migrate to the GST regime and late fee would be waived, Goyal said.
EY Partner Abhishek Jain said: "Reduction in ethanol GST rate for use by oil com-panies is welcome as major petroleum products are out-side GST, and this should help reduce their cost".
This is the fourth time since the roll out of the GST that the Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister and com-prising state counterparts, has rationalised rates.
In its meeting in November last year, the Council had re-duced rates in over 178 items in the 28 per cent tax bracket.
TS Angami is the NPSC’s new chairman Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The government of Nagaland has appointed TS Angami the chairman of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), and A Wopen Lotha a member of the commission.
A Raj Bhavan press release informed
that the duo was ‘inducted’ by the governor on Saturday. Angami retired as the director of the New and Renewable Energy depart-ment, while Lotha retired as the commis-sioner and secretary of Home and IPR, according to the press release.
Two arrested for raping 19-yr-old Naga woman in DelhiThe woman came in contact with one of the accused on a dating app, who asked her to meet him at his residence
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI): A 19-year-old woman from Nagaland was allegedly raped by two men in Dwar-ka's Kakrola area, the police said on July 21. The woman came in contact with one of the accused on a dating app, who asked her to meet him at his residence.
Accompanied by her
friend, she was picked up by the duo in a car from a street near Ramphal Chowk, Sec-tor 2 Dwarka, on Tuesday night. They took her to a flat in Kakrola Housing Com-plex where she was raped, a senior police officer said.
T h e w o m a n a p -proached the police in the early hours on Wednesday
about the incident, he said.In her statement to the
police, the woman alleged that the accused raped her in the flat.
The woman's friend was not targeted by the accused.
A case was registered in the matter and the accused were arrested on Friday, the officer said.
A view of the kitchen inside Plaza bakery in Dimapur. EM Images
Plaza bakery and Modern ice cream factory ordered to shut downEastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): One of Dimapur’s oldest and most well known bakeries, and an ice-cream factory in Dimapur have been ordered to shut down for improvement be-cause of unhygienic conditions they reportedly operate in. The development comes after food safety officers and members of the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industries, and the Naga Council of Di-mapur inspected bakeries and industrial units in an around Dimapur town.
Confirming the news to Eastern Mirror, Food Safety Commissioner (FSC) Himato Zhimomi said he was 'extreme-ly shocked' to see the condition of Plaza bakery’s kitchen. Plaza is considered one of the oldest bakeries in Dimapur town.
The bakery's kitchen, he said, was in extremely un-hygienic and unacceptable condition. "We trust their trade
as one of the oldest bakery in town and they have betrayed our trust. We are not eating for free but they have been tak-ing us for ride by functioning in an unhygienic kitchen to their customers," remarked Zhimomi.
The bakery's kitchen needs extensive renovation and will have to stay shut until they are ready with hygienic conditions, the authorities said. If not, their trade license will be revoked, Zhimomi said.
T h e s a m e a p p l i e s t o Modern ice-cream factory, which has been ordered to shut down and renovate with hygienic condition, the FSC informed.
The traders and sellers cannot take consumers for granted. Both the parties will be given a notice and if they fail to comply with it, they will be asked to shut down and their trade licenses revoked, Zhimomi added.
A clean Nagaland The chief minister also spoke about hygiene and cleanliness in Nagaland. “We can easily maintain cleanliness,” he said, and appealed to citizens to contribute in making the state free from plastic, by November. Raising concerns at the ex-cessive use of plastic in the state, Rio said “We have to give a substitute to the use of plastic.”
The state’s government is deliberating on the issue and have a few suggestions to solve the problem, the gathering was told.
Some of the alterna-tives include bamboo baskets, and paper bags, which are biodegradable.
The president of the TUD, Khalo Kapfo, said in his address that the union had bought a plot of land in 2001.
The project began in July 2013. It consists of 81 rooms, 200 sq ft per room. He said that the complex will be given out on lease for a period of 25 years.
After the completion of 25 years, the ownership will revert to the union.
It was informed that the daily Sunday market will be open at the com-plex.
Vendors and business persons are invited to avail the opportunity.
Rengma students support LSU on ILP implementation
‘Access to justice not confined to the court-based legal services’
2 STATEEastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Sunday, July 22, 2018
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Rengma Students’ Un-ion (RSU) has appreciated the stand taken by the Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) with regard to Inner Line Permit (ILP) system ‘to curb the influx of the illegal immi-grants’.
A press release from the RSU, while extending its support to the LSU, asserted that “the lack of stringent implementation of the Ben-gal Eastern Frontier Regu-lation (BERF) Act of 1873
and the provisions of BERF Act 1873 being too old and many of its provisions of the Act becoming irrelevant in our present context to check and detect the influx illegal immigrants in the state”.
In this connection, the RSU urged the state gov-ernment ‘to hear the com-mon cry’ and look into the matter and come out with a proper Inner Line Permit (ILP) regulation guidelines for the betterment of the state, for which
Dimasa apex body denigrates DNC’s allegation
NSCN / GPRN (R) terminates cadres
NCRC to hold prayer meeting
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): T h e Ja d i k h e Na i s h o Hoshom (JNH), the apex Dimasa body, has deni-grated the statement of Dimasa National Council (DNC) made against Naga rebels on July 16.
A press statement is-sued to media by the JNH general secretary, Frezer Sengyung on Saturday, stated following the state-ment made by the presi-dent of the DNC’s allega-tion that the Naga rebels are committing atrocities against the Dimasas liv-ing in Nagaland, the JNH made an “immediate” telephonic contact with leaders of Dimasa Public Organization Nagaland (DPON) and confirmed that there is no such kind of incidents of atrocities and “the Dimasa-Naga relationship in Nagaland are still tight and based on mutual respect existing since time immemorial.
The JNH stated that the ‘DNC never consult-
ed with the Dimasas of Nagaland before plac-ing their demand to the Government of India and that DPON informed they rather want early and hap-py ending of Indo-Naga peace talk.’
Sensing “something fishy”, suspected the in-volvement of high handed trouble mongers, JNH said that they called upon the leaders of DNC, frontal or-ganizations and intellec-tuals of Dima Hasao and held a meeting at Dibarai, Haflong on July 19.
“It was found that the DNC and their demands are not known to everyone present in the meeting and people of Dima Hasao in general. Moreover, the organization leaders are not the recognized per-son of any social activities in the district. This has increased the JNH’s sus-picion of involvement of third force in their unrec-ognized movement,” the release stated.
It further stated that the “self proclaimed” lead-ers of DNC were given opportunity to speak out to the gathering regard-ing the basis of allegation made against Naga rebels, their demands and future strategies, but “they com-pletely failed to deliver satisfactory answer.”
“Thus the JNH, and on the general consensus of the leaders of frontal or-ganizations and intellec-tuals of Dima Hasao dis-trict, in the greater interest of peace and development of all communities deni-grate the Dimasa National Council (DNC) and their riotous allegation made against the Naga rebels,” the release asserted.
Further, the JNH has appealed to the general people of both communi-ties to be cautious of be-ing used by “third force to attain and gain their per-sonal agendas and public figure at the cost of own community.”
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The NSCN/GPRN (Refor-mation) has discharged seven of its cadres from active national service with immediate effect.
A press release from the MIP NSCN/GPRN (R) received here on Satur-day, while informing about
the termination, listed out the discharged cadre s as ‘Lieut. Col.’ Shitokhu, ‘Lieut. Col.’ Huvito, ‘Maj.’ Ato, ‘Capt.’ Inito, ‘Capt.’ Heroka, ‘Lieut.’ Angukavi, and ‘Srg.’ Vika. The MIP stated that the cadres - ‘Naga army officials’ - have been discharged after they
failed to report to GHQ de-spite repeated calls.
“Henceforth, any issues that may arise in connec-tion with these mentioned individuals, the NSCN/GPRN (Reformation), will have or bear no respon-sibilities whatsoever,” the release added.
Organisers and campers pose for a group photo during the summer camp at Assisi centre in Dimapur.
Media fraternity mourns Bendangkokla’s demise
Assisi centre organises summer camp
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Nagaland Press Association (NPA) has expressed shock and sadness at the demise of Bendangkokla, mother of a senior journalist, Asungba Ao (Imrong), on July 21 evening at Eden Medical Center in Dimapur after prolong illness.
“We know that loss of a mother cannot compensate by any word of consolations. However, let us be comforted that God is gracious enough that He has given you all enough time to take care of her during her ailment. You all have done your part well with utmost love and care throughout her medical treatment within and out-side of Nagaland,” the condolence message read.
The NPA while expressing heartfelt sympathy to Asungba Ao and members of the bereaved family prayed that the Lord grant courage and solace to overcome this hour of bereavement. Further, the association prayed for the de-parted soul to rest in peace.
Tir Yimyim: Tir Yimyim is shocked and saddened at the death of their colleague Asungba Ao’s mother, Bendangkokla on July 21 at Eden Medical Centre in
Dimapur. She was stated to be 68 years.
“Even though she was under treatment for quite some time, we have not expected that her ap-pointed day would come so soon. Her death is great loss for all of us,” the condolence message received from Tir Yimyim editor and staff read.
At this hour of bereavement, Tir Yimyim has expressed sorrow and shares sympathy with the bereaved family members.
DPC: Dimapur Press Club (DPC) has expressed shock and sadness to hear about the demise of Bendangkokla Ao, mother of DPC treasurer and senior journal-ist, Asungba Ao on July 21 evening at Eden Medical Center in Di-mapur after a prolong illness.
The DPC conveyed its heartfelt condolences and sympathy to Asungba and his family members. The club offered prayer to the departed soul and the bereaved family members.
The club has informed that the funeral service will be held at 1 pm at Government Middle School Zeliangrong village, Dhobinalla in Dimapur.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Assisi centre for Integrated Develop-ment with the support of Na-tional Domestic Workers Move-ment -Child Right Movement have organised a summer camp in Assisi auditorium on July 20.
During the programme, Childline Coordinator Loza has enlightened children on POCSO Act and other child relayed is-
sues. State coordinator for Nation-
al Domestic Workers Movement, Sr. Pramila shared about four rights- right to survival, right to development, right to participa-tion, and right to protection.
Coordinator of Child Right Movement, Sr. Jobina explained the purpose of organising the camp.
Night curfew at Assam-Nagaland borderDimapur, July 21 (EMN): The deputy com-missioner of Mokokchung, Sachin Jaiswal has informed that due to unstable law and order situation in 5 km belt of Assam side bordering Nagaland, the additional district magistrate of Sivasagar, Assam has promulgated prohibition order u/s 144
CrPC night curfew from dusk to dawn for 60 days with immediate effect.
Curfew will be imposed at Halwating / Galekey and Bihubor police station of As-sam-Nagaland border. Therefore, DC has informed public living in this border area and travellers to take note of the order.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Nagaland Chris-tian Revival Church (NCRC) PR Hill Ko-hima, prayer centre for Nagaland has informed that there will monthly prayer meeting from July 27 to the 29th, 10 am and 4 pm respectively. Speakers for the meeting are Pastor Yangulie Sanchu, NCRC PR Hill,
Kohima and Rev. Dr. Neikedozo Paphino, president of NCRC. The prayer meeting will be hosted by Keneivole Savi. Lord’s Supper will be administered on Saturday morn-ing service and healing service on Sunday evening service. The program committee has invited all to attend.
Our CorrespondentMokokchung, July 21 (EMN): Justice Micheal Zothankhuma, judge of Guahati High Court said that access to justice is not confined to the court-based legal services but the emphasis has been scaled up on entitlement under various enactments and social welfare schemes and programmes.
Justice Zothankhuma was addressing the inau-gural programme of the mega-legal services camp, organized by the Naga-land State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) and Mokokchung District Le-gal Services Authority. The camp was conducted in collaboration with gov-ernment departments, stakeholders and NGOs at Imkongmeren Sports Complex here in Mokoko-chung on Saturday July 21.
The judge said earlier people who cannot afford to engage a lawyer were provided legal services by the state but today a new model where emphasis
Michael Zothankhuma inaugurating the mega-legal camp at Imkongmeren Sports Complex in Mokokchung on July 21.
on entitlements under various enactment and social welfare schemes and programmes of the government has been set.
The model, he said is to help the public to know about their entitlements and avail those schemes.
Zothankhuma high-lighted that the aim of the
camp was to identify and connect people to welfare schemes which will ensure that the fruit of the welfare schemes.
It is commendable to note that the nationwide legal services camp un-der the initiative of the National Legal Services Authority has benefited
lakh of people across the country, he said.
The judge assumed that in the state of NSLSA camps has benefited more than 5000 people con-ducted since Jan. 2018 in the districts of Kohima, Wokha, Longleng, Peren and Phek. He expressed hope that the camp will
benefit the people of Mokokchung district and urged the citizens to avail the opportunity and also to spread awareness about the entitlements and ben-efits provided through var-ious government schemes.
He further congratu-lated the NSLSA, MDLSA, stakeholders and NGOs for their commitment in rendering selfless serv-ice at the doorstep of the common man. “Your de-cision to come together to give a helping hand for the benefit of the public under one roof is com-mendable,” Zothankhuma asserted.
P r i o r t o t h e p r o -gramme, the judge inau-gurated the mega-legal services camp and visited the stalls set up by 31 gov-ernment departments and NGOs.
Short speeches were delivered by Principal District & Sessions Judge, Mokokchung Khape Koza and Deputy Commission-er Mokokchung Sachin Jaiswal
Revival programme underway at Koinonia prayer centre Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The monthly revival pro-gramme of Koinonia Prayer centre is being held under the theme, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. And he who wins souls is wise (prov-erbs 11:30).”
The speaker of the pro-gramme, associate pas-tor of Koinonia Baptist Church, Medotseilieü Kiewhuo, spoke on the prayers of righteous man that are being heard and answered by God with ref-erence from the James 5:16-17.
Stating that time spent in the ‘holy mountains’ for prayers are never wasted and never regretted, she said such presence of God
Medotseilieü Kiewhuo speaking at the revival programme at Koinonia prayer centre.
comes greater revelation.’ A press release received
from the centre informed that Sunday morning serv-ice will begin at 10 am and
evening service from 4 pm, with Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, senior pastor and founder of Koinonia Baptist Church as the speaker.
Alternative Learning Systems coaching centre opens at Tetso College
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Alternative Learning Systems (ALS) coaching centre was laaunched at Tetso College in Dimapur on July 20 by the college’s principal, Dr. PS Lorin and the founder of ALS, Jojo Mathews. This was informed in a press re-lease received here on Friday from the college authority.
The ALS founder said that cracking civil serv-ice exams is a test of four important things - infor-mation, which is the pre-liminary stages of learning; knowledge about how to write a good answer and apply the information; personality, character, and
integrity; and wisdom on how to tackle the problems in the country including how to handle politicians, mobs, or any other difficult situations.
Matthews encouraged students to develop the habit of reading newspa-pers daily to learn general knowledge. However, he said that reading alone does not help adding that ‘one should be able to convert that reading into knowledge, which requires one to develop a good memory power, an essential for cracking the exams.’ The next step, he said was to know how to apply that knowledge.
“The ALS centre will
begin its first batch from August this year. The coaching centre is open for all interested individuals and not exclusive to only Tetso College students. Scholarship tests will be held on July 25 to provide an opportunity to all indi-viduals irrespective of their financial background. ALS is a student-centric fo-cussing of round the clock availability and account-ability of mentors to its students. The coaching in-stitute also boasted in pro-ducing many top Indian Administration Service of-ficers in the state including an IAS officer Armstrong Pame,” the press release stated
Resource persons with students during the launch of ALS coaching centre at Tetso College.
Mount Olive College hosts spiritual camp Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): A spiritual camp was held at Mock Auditorium of Mount Olive College, on July 20 and 21st.
The programme was organised and sponsored by Sumi Baptist Church, women department un-der the theme “Integrity Life,” with associate pas-tor women SBCK, Kitoshi Kiba as the camp direc-tor, a press release re-ceived here on Saturday from the college’s author-ity informed.
The main speaker of the two-day camp was pastor pf Sumi Baptist Church Kohima, Rev. Dr. Hokheto Chophi.
S p e a k i n g o n t h e theme of the event, the speaker encouraged the students to have a disci-
Rev. Dr. Hokheto Chophi addressing the gathering at Mount Olive College in Kohima.
plined, sincere and good attitude in life, stating that ‘our walks of life re-flect our Integrity.’
Referring the Bible passage from the book
of Psalm 139:13-14, he said that God has cre-ated each and everyone beautifully and unique. Therefore, he said ‘every-one is different from the
other and in that way we can achieve our goals in different ways.’
Point ing out that ‘many young people are failing to understand the
purpose of God for them,’ he called upon the stu-dents to discipline them and have faith in God. He urged them to let God be their driver, mentor and master of their lives.
He also encouraged them to think bright, big and beyond and to be adventurous to achieve their goals.
Principal of Mount Olive College, Narendra S Tiwari in his greetings said that getting certifi-cate is not the only thing in life but becoming ‘a man free from evil is the best integrity in life.’ He appealed to the students to practise what they have learnt from the camp. He further encouraged them to be a good citizen and bring laurels to society.
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Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, July 21: Con-sidering that horticulture and agriculture sectors have the potential to im-prove the state’s economy and solve unemployment problem, advisor for Hor-ticulture Mhathung Yan-than today said the gov-ernment is contemplating to change the marketing policy in tune with the changing time.
In a u g u r a t i n g t h e strawberry field project at Teshora Integrated Farm in Punglwa village under Peren district, Yanthan, who was the special in-vitee, said the People’s Democratic Al l iance (PDA) government is giv-ing prior importance in horticulture and agricul-ture sectors in addressing the twin problems.
Admitting that poor marketing facility is one factor which is driving people away from farm-ing, Yanthan said the gov-ernment is trying its best to improve marketing fa-cility and promote export of surplus production.
Also pointing out
Eastern Mirror DeskDimapur, July 21: A charity fair to raise money in aid of the Dimapur Christian Fellowship (DCF) build-ing project was held at Aiko Greens, Purana Bazaar on July 21.
Members and entrepreneurs of DCF organised the event with an aim to bring people of all age groups to-gether for a fun filled day with stalls ranging from clothes to stationary, jewellery and food.
Besides the stalls, there was also
a penalty shootout where 13 teams competed for a cash prize of INR 20,000. One of the main attractions for the day was the helicopter ride for adventure enthusiasts as well.
Though the Saturday weather seemed to play spoilsport with the rain but it did not seem to hamper the atmosphere as visitors came prepared with umbrellas.
There were over 20 stalls that included young entrepreneurs and start ups.
The evening also brought Dreamz Unlimited and popular lo-cal musicians on stage as the likes of Alobo Naga, Renbeni Odyuo, Tali Angh, Virie and many more to en-thral the visitors of the fiesta.
The Crowd were seen lining up for gelatos, cup cakes, muffins, scented candles and even cute handmade stationary items like notepads, bookmarks and others by Quirky Qrafts which seem to have been a crowd puller.
Plan afoot to make changes in agri-horti marketing policy
UNTABA responds to DNC’s claim to Dimapur ZSUN appeals dept. to resume work
Attachment of lecturers: ENCSU seeks answers
DAWN organises 1st promotional local angling competition in Wokha
Chakhesang students in Kohima host career guidance seminar
Fundraising fair held for DCF building project
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Mhathung Yanthan, along with the director of horticulture and the promoters of the farm at the launching of strawberry field project in Punglwa village on July 21.
EM ImagesDr. Manazir Jeelani Samoon giving a prize to a winner.
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Left: Members of Grace and Care Foundation taking part in the charity fair that was organized in aid of Dimapur Christian Fellowship’s building project. A young customer buying scented candles at one of the stalls that was opened at the fundraiser held at Aiko Greens, Purana Bazaar on July 21.
EM ImagesDr. Kedise Pucho along with students after a programme at Kohima on Saturday.
that climate change has become a reality, he ad-vised the farmers to adopt modern scientific technol-ogy to improve produc-tivity. Yanthan remarked that ‘Nagaland is a land of opportunities’ for those who are willing to work. He, therefore, advised the farmers to work with sin-cerity and be self-reliant.
He has further con-gratulated two women promoters namely Lopilo and Yamna Matchen for the initiative to start the integrated farm and their service towards humanity.
Director of Hor t i-culture, Elithung Lotha exhorted that with the endowment of suitable climatic condition and fer-
tility of soil Nagas should build their strength towards economic empowerment.
According to him, the real meaning of employ-ment is engaging in farm-ing activities.
SDAO Dimapur, Ron-chamo Kikon, has also enlightened the gathering on the soil fertility of Na-galand. He has appreci-
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The United Naga Tribes Association on Border Areas (UNTABA) today took strong exceptions to the statement of the Dimasa National Council (DNC) and gave a state-ment about the history of the ‘indigenous people around the Brahmaputra valley’ once for all to ‘clear all doubts’.
A press statement signed by the UNTA-BA Chairman, Hukavi Yeputhomi and General Secretary Imsumongba Pongen, while asserting that the “ignorant voices of the so called DNC are nothing but a voice in the wilderness”, cited some historical accounts by writers of yesteryears.
It cited the ‘Hunter’s Statistical Account of As-
sam published in 1870’ “According to Hunt-
er’s Statistical Account of Assam published in 1870 - page 177, the total numbers of population consists in this manner: ‘No regular census has ever been taken of the Naga Hills, and it is im-possible, therefore, to give a correct estimate of the population,” the release stated.
“The Deputy Com-missioner in 1870 rough-ly put the population at 82,500 and estimated the relative numbers of the different races as follows: i) Assamese – 705; ii) Ait-anyas – 355; Cacharis – 3505; iii) Mikirs – 8820; and iv) Kukis – 2524. And, the Nagas who form, of course the great mass of the population 66,535 –
totalling to 82,444. The figures of the first
three named races were obtained by referring to the number of houses shown in the Revenue Returns, and calculating on the average of five inmates to each house’. Such are the records of history.”
The release stated that “during this period of his-tory, from ‘Seebsaugor’ town, the present Sib-sagar, which was estab-lished purely on the lands of illiterate Naga people of those days, leased out to new prospectors and the newly established Assam Company for Tea Industries by the British Imperial Government of India, part of Jorhat to Golaghat, to Kaliani river, then to Kopili river bor-
dering the present Jaintia Hills to Barak river valley were all under Naga Hills District, the boundary of which were notified in 1867 and then rectified in 1875.
“These are roughly the land and bounda-ries committed to be re-transferred to Naga peo-ple for which the Naga joined the union of India during its independence from British Raj,” the re-lease stated.
In this regard, the UN-TABA asserted that the ‘occasional outburst of the few MPs and MLAs of Assam does not merit their attention’ and stat-ed that unless these com-mitments are fulfilled, the Naga people shall pursue more vigorously for its inherent right.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Zeme Students’ Union Naga-land has informed that the un-ion met the Engineer in Chief Limatongdang Jamir at the Nagaland State PWD office in Kohima on July 19. According to the press note, the union met up with the engineer to discuss about the deteriorating road conditions in Nsong-Kebai area under Peren district which serves as the only lifeline of the people connecting to different villages and towns in the district.
The press note informed that during the meeting with the engineer in chief, the vice president of the union and the general secretary reminded the engineer to take stock of the deplorable road condition wherein not even 50% of the works has been carried out and urged Jamir to fulfill the aspira-tions of the people. The union also cited the negligence of the contractors and construction agencies within its jurisdiction. They sought necessary inter-vention from the government and the department concerned to compel the contractors to resume the work at the earli-est. The updates stated that if necessary action was not taken the union shall initiate its own course of action as per the law of the land and that the union shall not be held responsible for any untoward incidence thereafter.
According to the note, Jamir
informed the union that a meet-ing was conducted on June 25 2018 with all the contractors to take stock of the situation as to why the construction works had been halted for many years. Reacting to the negligence of the contractors and construction agencies Jamir said that an agree-ment was signed with all the con-tractors to resume the pending works which were kept static for many years and to complete the work latest by December 31 2018. In the updates Jamir said that If any contractor fails to comply with the signed agreement the department will initiate penal-ties and necessary actions will be taken against the contractors.
The updates further men-tioned that the union had an interaction with the superin-tendent engineer for PMGSY, Hozheto Shikhu and informed him about the pending con-struction works of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). The union urged the department to immediately intervene with necessary direc-tion and resume the work. The updates mentioned that Shikhu highlighted on the ground real-ity of the area and assured the union that he and his depart-ment was committed to bring possible solution as early as pos-sible within the given deadline and also appealed the public to cooperate with them once the work resumes.
YRS advisor visits Chuchuyimpang Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Advisor of Youth Resources and Sports, Zale Neikhaalong with the Department officers and village leaders visited the new proposed site for develop-ment of outdoor stadium at Chuchuyimpang village under Mokokchung District on July 21.
Before visiting the project site, the Advi-sor interacted with the officers and staff of District Sports Office and Youth Resources office Mokokchung where he encouraged and challenged every officer and staff to work with sincerity and renewed dedication to bring a change in moulding and uplifting the upcom-ing generation.
He also visited the Imkongmeren Sports Complex and assured that the immediate needs of repairs & renovation of the Youth Centre will be initiated before Mini Hornbill festival and Tsüngremmong festival.
Later the advisor inspected the new project site at Chuchuyimpang village where-in he advised and instructed the contractor to develop the outdoor Stadium as per the actual technical specification with quality workmanship. He also added that new sta-dium will benefit the people of Mokokchung town and its adjoining villages as an auxiliary play field.
Pointing out that Imkongmeren Sports Complex is the only venue where every event are held, he said the new project will add another play field to Mokokchung and expressed hope the new project will greatly served the people.
In this regard, he directed the officers and contractors to monitor that the project is ex-ecuted properly and complete at stipulated time, this was stated in a press report by the DYRO, K Libemo Jami.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Eastern Nagaland College Stu-dents’ Union (ENCSU) has once again asked the department of Higher Education to clarify the reason as to why the department has not release the order of at-tachment lectures to send back to their original posting place. In a press release on Saturday, the ENCSU stated that they had submitted a memorandum to the Commissioner Secretary and the minister concerned in which the union revealed that they had already granted sufficient time to the department which was al-most two months ago from now. Hence, the ENCSU has urged the department to release the order
immediately. The press note stated that the
department of Higher Education should know the value of students at the present situation in which the students are losing due to the shortage of lectures in colleges. The ENCSU further asserted that they won’t entertain any addi-tional professors acting on behalf of the attachment lectures.
The union cautioned the de-partment of Higher Education not to entertain any excuses from those professors who don’t want to return to their original posting place.
The union urged the depart-ment to sent back all the assist-ant professors and that no leave
should be entertained under any circumstances.
The updates mentioned that the union will not compromise with any professors who were attached in the directorate when they were already appointed as lectures and professors in the colleges, and that he/she should return to their original posting place.
Meanwhile, the union also urged the politicians not to inter-vene in favour of any professors when they had failed to exercise their duty in their original posting place. Instead, the union asked them to direct those professors to follow the right direction for the welfare of the students’ community.
Our CorrespondentWokha, July 21 (EMN): District Anglers’ Wokha Nagaland (DAWN) organ-ised the first promotional local angling competition at Tsumang Lake, Wokha on July 21on the theme “Initiating Avocation.” Al-together 122 local anglers participates in the event.
The Deputy Commis-sioner Wokha, Dr. Manazir Jeelani Samoon (IAS), who graced the prize distribu-tion event, highlighted on the importance of preser-vation and promotion of indigenous products.
While reminding the gathering that angling is an old practice, where hunting and fishing is a way for survival since time immemorial, the DC how-ever, expressed dismay on how the traditional way of fishing was replaced by the destructive use of dynamites and chemi-cal; rather he encouraged the people to take up ‘an-gling need to be taken up a sport with a cost’. He expressed on how Wokha being blessed with all nat-ural beauty and resources can help set up and attract eco-tourism.
He congratulates the
Our CorrespondentKohima, July 21 (EMN): Kohima Chakhesang Stu-dents’ Union in collabora-tion with department of State Institute & Rural de-velopment (SIRD) organ-ised a one day seminar on career guidance and skill development for youth in Kohima on Saturday.
The resource person for the programme, Dr. Kedise Pucho, senior lec-turer of SIRD in his address stressed on the impor-tance of having an aim in life in order to succeed. He observed that few students have aim in life. He main-tained that those people with career vision will achieve their goal because they know which way they are heading to and there-fore does not need career guidance but, for those who do not have a vision need career guidance as they have no vision and
have a sense of insecu-rity, they know nothing but their education is inferior.
Noting on the impor-tance of having an aim in life, he said “career guid-ance will give you advice but its you (students) who will achieve what you want in life you know yourself, your capability.”
The resource person reminded the students that ‘fancy’ degree alone cannot get a job, it requires different skills. He cited two types of skills-‘hard power’ and ‘soft power skills’ were required to succeed in today’s world. Hard power skills, he said are experiences, vocation-al knowledge, hands-on learning, practical profes-sional ability, certificate and aptitudes along with the academic credentials while soft power skills are personal branding skills such as persuasiveness,
communication agility/skills, relationship build-ing, self-promotion, lead-ership and strategic net-working, problem-solving and creative skills.
Pucho said that career guidance is lacking in Na-galand therefore young people are suffering from it and end up nowhere. ‘Parents are equally re-sponsible but that is lack-ing in our society... Nagas are very lazy, and not seri-ous,...always depending on someone which is why we don’t succeed,’ he ob-served. He therefore called upon the parents, teachers to be more responsible person and be a motivator to the younger generation in guidance them.
“Children need inspi-ration, encouragement and praising from teach-ers as well as the parents. Motivation should start at classes 6 to 10 for career
foundation, duty of the teachers is not learn and write but inspire and mo-tivate their career, duty of the parents is not only sending school them but parents must have a goals, duty of uncle & aunty to be supportive and encourage them” Pucho asserted .
“The backward quota should be removed if we are to compete with the rest of the world in this 21st century as backward quota doesn’t have value outside the state,” he said.
The speaker also high-lighted the centre schemes and training which the government is providing the youths to empower their skills.
Arenla Aier, centre manager of Pinnacle Skills also spoke on the event and highlighted the training and job place-ment which the students can avail.
ated the ideal location of the farm which has good irrigation facility and ac-cessibility to markets.
In a keynote address, Lopilo said the strawberry field project would com-mence in early September. According to her, the mo-tive of starting the farm was to accommodate drop-out student to find gainful employment and to motivate women group to be self-reliant through engaging in agricultural activities.
She was insistent on producing organic veg-etable items. She said cultivation on tomatoes, cabbages, lady fingers, papayas, areca nuts and bananas were started on trial basis. Emboldened by the positive responds from the public, Lopilo said she and her partners had decided to under-taker bigger responsibility.
The most satisfying outcome of starting the farm according to Lopilo was finding job for school drop-outs and motivating women groups to be self reliant.
DAWN for promoting and educating the people in preserving endangered species as well as for the successful organising of the event; he encouraged the participants to lead a role in traditional fishing.
Short speech was also delivered by Mhonbemo vice president Anglers As-sociation Nagaland (AAN) and Dr Mhonchan Shitiri project director ATMA Wokha district.
The programme for the prize distribution was
chaired by Khyolamo Lotha event organising secretary DAWN while welcome note was address by KN Mhonthung Lotha president DAWN.
Earlier the dedication of the event was invoked by Chumben Murry Youth Director WTBC.
Ekyimo Erui, a 69 year old from Wokha Village, was the oldest angler and bagged a cash prize and certificate, while the lucky angler was received by Simon Kikon.
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Gauhati HC directs Arunachal govt. to expedite setting up Lokayukta
Border guards of India and Bangladesh to discuss crimes, disputed territories
Student group announces agitation in Mnp Only Royal Bengal Tiger in
Tripura’s zoo dies
Our Correspondent Diphu, July 21 (EMN): The Karbi Students Association (KSA) left faction Simeon Rongphar celebrated the glorious 59th Foundation Day which was observed as “Karbi Students Day” at Diphu Government Col-lege complex on Saturday, July 21. Celebrating the occasion on the theme “Dynamic role of KSA on Karbi students’ movement and the demand for an autonomous state under Article 244 (A) through peaceful, democratic and mass people orientation where KSA members from various KSA branches of the district took part in the programme. Earlier, under the presidentship of Simeon Rongphar, a re-minder of KSA’s 51 points demands charter memo-randum was submitted to the Chief Executive Mem-ber (CEM), Tuliram Rong-hang, on behalf of CEM and EM Kache Rongpipi and Principal Secretary Mahadananda Hazerika
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Dr. Jayanta Rongpi speaking during the Karbi Students Day in Diphu on Saturday, July 21.
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received the memoran-dum from the students’ leaders at the KAAC Secre-tariat complex.
Later on, a public meeting was held at the venue which was chaired by its President Simeon Rongphar. Attending as
the chief guest, former MP Dr. Jayanta Rongpi said, the students plays a vital role in our soci-ety for contribution and attaining of statehood, students need to come out and should give their support in the statehood
demand movement. We have been struggling for our long standing de-mand from 1986 onwards till today.
During our move-ment we have achieved s o m e t h i n g , t h o u g h our demands is not yet
achieved, like MoU was signed between the Ccn-tral government in 1995 where 30 departments has come under the juris-diction of KAAC, but soon after the Congress, BJP come into power in KAAC even single department did not bought it. Rongpi also said, the council did not have the execution power to give appoint-ment instead one has to obtain Staff Inspection Unit (SIU) from the As-sam Government.
Rengmila Hojai, Presi-dent, Dimasa Women Society (DWS) said, the Assam Government has deprived for the hills dis-trict of Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao for the last many years, as our long standing demand Article 244 (A) is not yet fulfill un-til and unless our demand are not fulfilled we have go on we are demand, all the students have to stay united in order to achieved our demands in the days to come.
Our CorrespondentDiphu, July 21 (EMN): It may be for the first time that the Art & Cul-ture department of Karbi Anglong Autonomous (KAAC) has organised a summer camp for chil-dren to train them in Karbi traditional dance and music as it was not heard earlier, said Ex-ecutive Member (EM), KAAC, Town & Country Planning and Handloom & Textiles, Ratan Teron.
Attending as the chief guest at the closing cer-emony cum certificate distribution function held here at the Rangsina Sarpo Cultural Hall, Lorulangso on Saturday of the 20 days summer camp on training cum workshop organised for children age between 6 to 13 years on Karbi folk dance and songs, EM Teron said, “It will be a history in Karbi Anglong as for the first time the Art & Culture department has organised a Summer Camp for children to train them on Karbi folk dance and songs. The step taken up by the department is laudable. Children from
a tender age should be given proper guidance and education. On other spheres like games and sports, art and culture etc. should train them from young age.”
Cultural Affairs, Diphu and Karbi Traditional Mu-sic, Culture and Research Institute have jointly or-ganised the 20 days sum-mer camp from July 1 for children to train them on Karbi folk dance like Rit nongchingdi, Nimso kerung, Hacha kekan etc., in order to keep them busy during summer vacation from school.
Altogether 113 chil-dren both boys and girls took part in the camp.
EM Teron fur ther said, “Karbi Anglong has crossed more than nine lakhs population, but still 80 percent of people are in poverty. We are too lazy. We should build up a work culture.
If we work then there will be money and if there is money then courage will come.”
He a l s o s a i d n ow a days both boys and girls are getting married
at an early age without any job or self-support. Early marriage should be discouraged, he said. Drinking habit should be removed and concentrate on children’s education, EM Teron said.
EM, KAAC, Fisheries and Art & Culture, Rups-ing Teron said, “When the cultural affairs thought of organising the sum-mer camp for children we thought there will be no response.
But there was an over whelming response as many parents have brought their children for the summer camp.
This shows that par-ents as well as children are keen to learn about own culture. I should thank those parents who sent their children to the sum-mer camp to give train-ing on Karbi traditional dances.”
Children were dressed at their best in Karbi tradi-tional costumes and also demonstrated folk dances of what they have learnt.
The participating chil-dren were given certificate of participation.
Our CorrespondentImphal, July 21 (EMN): Manipur University Stu-dents’ Union (Musu) which have been spear-heading continuous agi-tation demanding the re-moval of Vice Chancellor Prof Adya Prasad Pandey for his alleged financial and administrative irregu-larities since May 30, has announced that they will disturb the ongoing as-sembly session.
President M Daya-man of Musu who made the announcement dur-ing a press conference at the university campus, conveyed it during a tel-ephonic conversation last evening.
‘We decided to take the
step as the ongoing session of the state assembly failed to discuss and take a deci-sion in connection with the ongoing university is-sue,’ said Dayaman. Many civil society organisations in the state also agreed to support the movement.
Manipur assembly which began here on Fri-day will resume on Mon-day as a concluding ses-sion. On the other hand Musu leader lauded the support extended by the general public, civil society organisations and other students’ bodies during the 48 hour general strike which concluded on July 19 midnight.
Manipur University Teachers Association and
Manipur University Staffs Association besides locals living around the Univer-sity have been supporting the ongoing agitation of Musu. He however con-demned the excess of the security forces during the torch rallies organised in connection with the ongo-ing protest at Uripok and Singjamei areas on July 19 night. Around 10 persons were injured during the police action.
Appealing not to boy-cott the schools as boy-cotting schools may give negative impact, he said the only solution to the ongoing crisis will be the removal of Vice Chancellor Prof Pandey.
On Friday three Gov-
ernment Higher Second-ary Schools in Imphal staged a sit in demonstra-tion demanding immedi-ate end of the Manipur university crisis by remov-ing Prof Pandey.
In another develop-ment, the senior state po-lice officers appealed to the public not to encour-age undemocratic forms of protests. The appeal was made by IGP (law and order) Clay Khongsai dur-ing a press conference in Imphal on Friday evening. The DIG Manipur police K Jayentakumar, SPs Jo-geshchandra Haobijam (Imphal West) and K Meg-hachandra (Imphal East) also attended the press conference.
Agartala, July 21 (IANS): Border crimes, disputed territories and bet-ter border coordination would be discussed at the bi-annual meeting of Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) beginning Sunday, top BSF official said on Saturday.
Sector Commanders of BGB’s Sarail and Chittagong regions and Inspectors General of BSF’s three northeast India frontiers’-- Tripura, Meghalaya, and Mizoram-Cacher -- will attend the four-day meeting at Tripura frontier headquarters in Shalbagan, 12 km north of Agar-tala.
BSF’s Tripura frontier Inspec-tor General Hemant Kumar Lohia said that the two sides would fine-
tune strategies to check crimes, smuggling, illegal movement and work to resolve disputes over ter-ritories.
“Erection of border fencing along the remaining portion of India-Bangladesh territories, water sharing and cleanliness of drainage water would also be discussed,” Lohia told IANS.
He said that after the first phase of the meeting, the BSF and BGB officials would go to Kolkata and meet the BSF’s Special Director General (in Eastern Command) Nasir Kamal.
“Reduction of border crime along the borders could be possi-ble through mutual understanding between the BSF and BGB,” Lohia
added.He said that the BGB has set
up five border outposts (BOPs) along the unfenced Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) to maintain close vigilance alongside the mountain-ous border.
“With the help of BGB and other security forces of Bangladesh, ter-rorist activities in the North-East and their trans-border movement have been reduced,” the BSF of-ficial said.
Four northeastern states, Tripu-ra, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam share 1,880-km international bor-der with Bangladesh.
Most parts of the 1,880-km fron-tiers are unfenced, mountainous and prone to crime.
Dimapur, July 21(EMN): A group of organisations forming the ‘joint tribal student bodies of Ma-nipur’ has announced an indefinite strike in “Ma-nipur hill area” to protest what it stated on Satur-day was the closure of Manipur University, and “Moreh terror attack” and “Churachandpur assault.”
The group issued a press release on Saturday making the announce-ment.
The group asserted in the press release: The “in-action and outrageous attitude” of the state’s gov-ernment on stated issues had left the group with no option “but to resume the previously relaxed indefi-nite bandh in hill areas of Manipur from 6 a.m. of Monday July 23 to seek justice and protest against the government’s mis-treatment.”
‘Now that the Ministry of Human Resource De-velopment has instituted
a fact-finding committee to investigate into the al-legations against the vice chancellor, the agitating students and teachers should allow the univer-sity to function normally until the committee has completed its inquiry and come up with recommen-dations based on their fact finding,’ the students’ group stated.
The statement also denounced what it said was the “terror attack and attempted mass murder on innocent children, stu-dent leader and civilians at GamnomVeng, Moreh at 2 am on 13 July 2018 al-legedly by heavily armed cadres of the Kuki National Organisation / Kuki Na-tional Army (KNO/KNA).”
‘We are disgusted that the government has not even arrested the perpe-trators till now,’ the press release stated.
The group has de-manded stringent action against the culprits of the
Moreh attack; arrest all those involved in the at-tack and the masterminds behind and bring them to justice. Besides, the group has demanded removal of ‘the group responsible permanently from Moreh and its surroundings.’
Likewise, the ‘joint tribal student bodies of Manipur’ demanded the arrest all the KSO mem-bers and all those involved in the assault and ‘terror-izing of peaceful protest-ers and student leaders in Churachandpur on 6 July 2018 and bring them to justice.’
The organization has demanded ‘befitting pun-ishment’ to the additional superintendent of police of Churachandpur and others ‘involved for abet-ting violence and instigat-ing violent KSO activists against peaceful protesters and tribal student leaders.’ The government should suspend or transfer them, the students stated.
Agartala, July 21 (PTI): The only Royal Bengal Tiger in Tripuras zoo has died, of-ficials said today.
The tiger named Dipu died in the zoo yesterday because of ‘old age’, zoo director Naresh Jamatiya told reporters. The zoo is located at Sipahijala sanc-tuary, about 18 km from here. The Wild Life Warden of the sanctuary, Anjan Sen said the tiger was ailing for about last six months and was on oral rehydration for last fortnight.
When contacted, Prin-cipal Chief Conservator of Forest, Ashok Kumar said the tiger was 15-years-old and the average life span of a Royal Bengal Tiger is 1518 years. The tiger was brought from Chan-digarh zoo in 2006 when it was 3-year old, former director of the zoo, Pallab Chakraborty, told PTI.
Itanagar, July 21 (PTI): The Itanagar Permanent Bench at Gauhati High Court has directed the Arunachal Pradesh government to expedite the process of establishment of Lokay-ukta in the state.
While disposing of two public interest litigations (PILs) filed by social activist Payi Gyadi, the court said the government should set up Lokayukta at the earliest so as to “give effective meaning to the pro-visions of the Arunachal Pradesh
Lokayukta Act, 2014”.Gyadi, in his PILs, pleaded for
implementation of the Act without further delay to “curb corruption” in public offices. He told the court that four years have gone by since the en-actment of the statute, but the state respondents are yet to “demonstrate their commitment” to establish Lokayukta.
The counsel for state respond-ents, however, produced a notifica-tion, issued by Chief Secretary Satya
Gopal to the state government on July 5, to show that a “search com-mittee” has been constituted for pre-paring a list of possible names, who could be considered for appoint-ment as chairperson and members of the Lokayukta.
Having regard to the above, we find no justification to detain adju-dication of the PILs any further, save and except making a direction to the state respondents to expedite the process,” the court in its order said.
DECLARATION Regd No. M146/2018 Date: 11.07.2018
I, Smt. ELIZABETH ODYUO, D/o RENPI ODYUO, resident of H/No.32, Oriental Colony, Dist- Dimapur, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as under:-1. That, I am a bonafide citizen of India and a resident of above stated place.2. That, in my Aadhaar card bearing Reg. No.836557367860, SBI Bank Account bearing A/C No.3145752318, PAN CARD & Official Academic documents my name has been entered as “R. ELIZABETH” and my father’s name has been entered as “R RENPI ODYUO”.3. That, this declaration is made to declare the “ELIZABETH ODYUO” and “R. ELIZABETH” and my father’s name has been entered as “R. RENPI ODYUO” and “RENPI ODYUO” are one and same person and further to rectify my correct name as “ELIZABETH ODYUO” and my father’s name as “RENPI ODYUO” and that this name, “ELIZABETH ODYUO” and “RENPI ODYUO” shall hence be used for all official purpose and shall hence be referred to as the same person.4. That the content of this affidavit from para (1) to (3) are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and nothing material is concealed therein.
DECLARANTSolemnly affirmed and declared before me on this 11th day of July, 2018.
MAGISTRATE/NOTARY PUBLIC DIMAPUR: NAGALANDD-5770
GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
KOHIMA ::: NAGALANDNo. JUDL/SUCC/96/2018-V Dated Kohima, the 11th July, 2018OBJECTION NOTICEWhereas Smti. SARASWATI W/o LT. KHIM BAHADUR, Peon, Deptt. Conservator of Forest (S.T.C) Kohima N/L resident of Upper Forest Colony, Kohima has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925, Part X to draw/withdraw/operate/transfer his/her Late husband- Pension, GIS, G.P.F, Leave encashment, Gratuity & other service benefits entitled. Bank A/C No.20024562464 SBI Lerie Branch, Kohima. Who expired on 23.04.2018.Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/objection if any within 1 (one) month from the date of issue of this notice. Sd/-(LITHRONGLA TONGPI RUTSA)
Additional Deputy CommissionerKohima: NagalandKG-2690
GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDOFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
LONGLENG: NAGALANDNO.LLG/JUD/SUC/2009-10/149 /Dated, Longleng the 2018OBJECTION NOTICEWhereas, Kumari. Yungmei Phom of Yongphang Village has applied for issue of Succession Certificate to Operate/Draw/Transfer/Withdraw the securities in respect of late Smti Along Phom. Who expired on 16th May 2018.Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/objection. If any, within one month from the date of issue of this notice.
JOHN TSULISE SANGTAMDeputy Commissioner
Longleng: NagalandD-5772
GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
KOHIMA ::: NAGALANDNo. JUDL/SUCC/90/2018-I Dated Kohima, the 7th May, 2018OBJECTION NOTICEWhereas Kumari. TIAMENLA Sister of LT. LIMAKUMBA, Pensioner resident of Lengrijan Dimapur has applied for issue of Succession Certificate under the Indian Succession Act 1925, Part X to draw/withdraw/operate/transfer his/her Late Brother-. Bank A/C No.30243189542 SBI Jakhama Branch. LIC Policy No.1K478920302 SBI Life Smart Wealth Builder. Who expired on 02.03.2018.Now therefore, public are hereby asked to file claims/objection if any within 1 (one) month from the date of issue of this notice. Sd/-(LITHRONGLA TONGPI RUTSA)
Additional Deputy CommissionerKohima: NagalandKG-2691
IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICTHEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND
Dt. Dimapur the 19.07.18NOTICE
No.M-299/18 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti. H. Niholi Sema -Vrs- Ningsangmanen Amer resident of Dimapur, Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:
The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 19.08.2018. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder: H. Niholi Sema Village/Block No: 3, Patta No: 1442Dag No: 28/1720, Area: 00B-01K-15 LsNorth: Approach Road, South: Lulun Hangsingh, East: Loktimaong Amer, West: Kevi Angami
Sd/- Deputy CommissionerDimapur: NagalandD-5766
IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICTHEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND
Dt. Dimapur the 19.07.18NOTICE
No.M-300/18 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti. Vika Yeptho -Vrs- Loktimaong Amer resident of Dimapur, Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:
The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 19.08.2018. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder: Vika Yeptho Village/Block No: 3, Patta No: 1549Dag No: 28/1830, Area: 00B-01K-12LsNorth: Approach Road, South: Lulun Hangsingh, East: Hangsingh, West: Ningsangmanen Amer
Sd/- Deputy CommissionerDimapur: NagalandD-5767
IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICTHEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND
Dt. Dimapur the 19th July 18NOTICE
No.M-298/18/2976-77 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti. C. Kipili Sangtam -Vrs- Smti. K. Hukali Chophy resident of Thahekhu, Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:
The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 19.08.2018. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder: Shri. C. Kipili Sangtam Village/Block No: 9, Patta No: 959Dag No: 1085, Area: 00B-01K-07LsNorth: Plot of Apokla, South: Plot of K. L. Akum, East: Road, West: Approach Road
Sd/- Deputy CommissionerDimapur: NagalandD-5768
IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPUR DISTRICTHEADQUARTER, CHUMUKEDIMA, CAMP: DIMAPUR: NAGALAND
Dt. Dimapur the th 18NOTICE
No.M-285/18 Notice is hereby given that Shri/Smti Arensangla Longkumer -Vrs- Benathung Odyuo resident of .................. Town/Village in the District of Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below:
The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 21.08.2018. SCHEDULED OF LAND AND BOUNDARYName of Patta Holder: Shri. Arensangla Longkumer Village/Block No: Padumpukhuri (AK), , Patta No: 1397Dag No: 1897, Area: 03B-02K-10Ls Sd/- Deputy Commissioner
Dimapur: NagalandD-5769
IN THE COURT OF DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIMAPURDIMAPUR: NAGALAND.
Dt. Dimapur the 20th July, 2018 NOTICE
NO.REV-08/2008-D/3036- 37 Notice is hereby given that Shri. T. Mar Pongen resident of Duncan Basti, Dimapur has applied for duplicate Patta/Jamabandi bearing Patta No. 231 under Dag No. 321 at measuring an area of 00B-02K-02Ls. at Block No. 9 of Mouza No. 3, which is reported to be lost. Seen FIR lodge vide No. 07.17, dtd. 01.09.17 in the East P.S on the said plot of land. The undersigned hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land and if any should be submitted to this Court in written within 1(one) month from the date of issue of this notice. Sd/-
SUSHIL KUMAR PATEL, IASDeputy Commissioner
Dimapur: NagalandD-5771
Nagaland Board of School EducationKohima
NOTIFICATION NO.33/2018Dated Kohima, the 19th June, 2018
NO.NBE-10/Ex-11/2018-19 :: It is hereby notified for information of all the heads of registered institutions that the submission of forms, fees and collection of documents during 1st to 6th August 2018 both for Secondary and Higher Secondary shall be done district-wise and on the respective date. This has been necessitated to ensure a smooth and systematic submission in the interests of the Office and the institutions.
Therefore, all Heads of registered institutions are directed to submit/collect forms and documents on the specified date as shown below. Respective schools should note the submission date and act accordingly. No form/document shall be accepted after the due date.
Sl. No.
Schools under District Institutions Date of submission/collection
1 Mokokchung/Kiphire/Peren 74 + 31 + 36 01-08-2018 (Wednesday)
2 Mon/Tuensang/Longleng 58 + 54 + 23 02-08-2018 (Thursday)
3 Phek/Zunheboto 62 + 60 03-08-2018 (Friday)
4 Kohima/Wokha 109 + 46 04-08-2018 (Saturday)
5 Dimapur 187 06-08-2018 (Monday)
(Mrs. Asano Sekhose) Chairman KG-2689
5STATE / BUSINESSEastErn Mirror | Sunday, July 22, 2018
Himachal govt. announces MIS for apple procurement
Orient Cement plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore for expansion in Telangana
Reliance Power Q1 net profit up at Rs 237 crore
Sericulture dept. meets to discuss projects
NSF demands re-verification of some NEET candidates
Shimla, July 21 (PTI): The Himachal gov-ernment has approved implementation of Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) for procurement of apple.
The scheme will be implemented from July 20 to October 31 this year, a spokesper-son of the Horticulture Department said here today.
The MIS will be undertaken for pro-curement of 2,29,136 metric tonnes apple, for which price has been set at Rs 7.50 per kg, the handling charges will be Rs 2.75 per kg and assumed sale realisation will be Rs 3.50 per kg, he added.
Under the scheme, 279 procurement centres will be opened as per demand of the fruit growers, he said, adding that the fruits will be procured in 35 kilo gunny bags with 2.5 per cent more fruits in view of evapotranspiration and respiration losses.
Apple having diameter above 51 mm will be accepted only under the scheme, he said, adding that fruit having punctured skin or bird eaten or damaged would not be accepted.
However, fruits having slight hail dam-age, slight bruising, russeting and mis-shapen fruit will be accepted, he added.
Hyderabad, July 21 (IANS): Orient Cement Ltd, a part of C.K. Birla Group, plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore to expand the capacity of its plant in Telangana, the state government said on Saturday.
The company will ex-pand the capacity of its factory at Devapur in Man-cherial district from cur-rent 3.05 million tonnes to 7.5 million tonnes of ce-ment per annum.
Deepak Khetrapal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Orient Cement Ltd, on Sat-urday met Industries Min-
ister K.T. Rama Rao and discussed the expansion plans.
Orient Cements Ltd has obtained first stage of Environment Clearance from the Union Environ-ment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry for ex-panding the plant.
The construction of the plant is expected to start within four months once the final clearance from the ministry is received, said a statement from the minister’s office.
This plant is likely to give direct employment to 4,000 people. Khetrapal
requested Rama Rao for limestone linkage from Telangana State Mineral Development Corpora-tion (TSMDC) mines for long-term operation of the plant.
The minister said that the state government’s in-dustrial policy continues to attract investments.
“Through Ease of Do-ing Business (EoDB), Telangana state has suc-ceeded in attracting new investments to the state and is helping the existing firms in expanding their business in the state,” he said.
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS): Reliance Power (RPower) on Saturday posted a 3 per cent rise in its net profit at Rs 237 crore for the first quarter ended June, the company said in a state-ment here.
The company had reg-istered a profit after tax of Rs 230 crore during the same quarter of last year.
RPower earned a total income of Rs 2,371 crore during the quarter in con-sideration.
Its earnings before in-terest, taxes, depreciation
and amortisation (EBIDTA) during the April-June quar-ter stood at Rs 1,089 crore.
Among the company’s operational highlights dur-ing the first quarter, the statement said its 3,960 MW Sasan ultra-mega power plant (UMPP) in Madhya Pradesh operated at the plant load factor (PLF) of 98.2 per cent, “which is the highest ever quarterly sta-tion PLF achieved since Commercial Operation Date (COD)”. “Sasan’s PLF continues to be the highest among all 1000+ MW ther-
mal plants in the country for two consecutive quar-ters”. The company’s 1,200 MW Rosa Power Plant in Ut-tar Pradesh operated at PLF of 63 per cent and the 600 MW Butibori Power Plant in Maharashtra operated at PLF of 45 per cent, it said.
In the area of renewable energy, while RPower’s 40 MW Dhursar solar plant in Rajasthan operated at PLF of 21 per cent, its 45 MW wind capacity at Vashpet in Maharashtra operated at PLF of 18 per cent, the statement added.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The director of Seri-culture, Imtisosang Ao, along with officers con-ducted a meeting with the advisor for Sericul-ture, Imtikumzuk, on July 18.
A report from the DIPR received here on Friday has informed that the meeting was con-ducted to discuss mat-ters relating to the de-partmental activities.
The director high-lighted about the on-going programmes of Intensive Bivoltine
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Close on the heels of the controversy over the re-cently declared NEET 2018 result and the objection raised from various quar-ters, the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) today asked the department of Higher and Technical Edu-cation to keep in abeyance the counselling of certain selected candidates.
A representation by the secretary of Social and Culture, Dievi Yano and Education secretary, Müphatho Nyuthe to the commissioner-secretary of Higher and Technical Education stated that the NSF had received com-plaint regarding the se-lected candidates viz. Sl. No 7, 38, 50, 61, 71 ‘whose indigenous inhabitant is doubtful’.
In this regard, the NSF asked the commission-er-secretary to ‘keep the counselling of the follow-ing candidates in abey-ance’ and that the indige-nous inhabitant certificate of the candidates be re-verified as per 1963 elec-toral roll.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Ministry of Skill De-velopment officials in-teracted with minister for Higher Education and Technical Educa-tion, Temjen Imna Along at Nagaland House in New Delhi and discussed about the ongoing project in the state.
A press release re-ceived here on Friday from the public rela-tion officer of Nagaland House, New Delhi in-formed that during an interaction, the ministry officials were said to have informed that there are 250 courses in the Minis-try of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of which only few were tak-en up in the state. They told that the state govern-ment can add many more programmes in addition
Temjen Imna Along, sixth from left, and central and state officials during a meeting at Nagaland House in New Delhi.
Imtikumzuk and departments officials during the meeting.
Ministry of Skill Development suggests programmes for state’s youths
Sericulture Develop-ment project, Integrated Eri Silk Development project, and Post Cocoon project being taken up by the department with an objective for women empowerment and sus-tainable livelihood in the rural areas of the state, the report stated.
While appreciating the role of the depart-ment as rural based
economy, the advisor urged the director and officers to discharge their duties with sincer-ity and dedication. He also apprised the de-partment to frame road-map through survey of potential areas where production and produc-tivity can be enhanced and the living conditions of the rural mass can be improved.
to the present course in ITI and suggested that resource persons for training can be sourced from other state and pri-vate sector for trainee for those new courses.
Under PMKVY pro-gramme, the officials informed that 20% of students can go to other states for training in any course under the skill de-velopment programme saying that there are 18 ministry run skill training in various field
They also suggested courses that can be intro-duced under the Skill De-velopment department, Higher and Technical Ed-ucation under polytech-nic, Prison department, Art and Culture depart-ment and under NEPED for piggery course. How-ever, they informed that
every department or or-ganization must register with National Qualifica-tion Agency which is a mandatory rule for im-parting the training.
The release men-tioned that the officials will soon visit the state for two days to conduct awareness workshop programme on the skill development which are implementing in the country.
Officials from Minis-try of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, co-ordinator of Northeast and LWE areas and of-ficials from the state and Nagaland House, New Delhi attended the meet-ing.
Also, it has informed that minister Along called on the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural
Gas, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan at his official residence in New Delhi and discuss about the skill develop-ment in the state.
The minister is stated to have apprised the Un-ion minister about the Naga educated youth with potential of taking up in the field of hospital-ity, arts and craft etc. He requested him to help the youths with some relaxa-tion in the guidelines and improvised approach to the needs of the unskilled youths.
In response, the Un-ion minister asked his of-ficial team to find out the road map of Nagaland for skill development and entrepreneurship train-ing programme, the press release stated.
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PATHAmong the hundreds of articles I’ve written for Our Daily Bread since 1988, a few stick in my mind. One
such article is from the mid-1990s when I told of a time our three girls were away at camp or on mission trips, so six-year-old Steve and I had some guy time.
As we were enjoying an excursion to the airport, Steve turned to me and said, “It’s not as much fun without Melissa,” his eight-year-old sister and sidekick. Neither of us knew then how poignant those words would turn out to be. Life indeed has not been “as much fun” for the years since Mell died in a car accident as a teenager. The pas-sage of time may dull the ache, but nothing takes the pain away completely. Time cannot heal that wound. But here’s something that can help: listening to, meditating on, and savoring the solace promised by the God of all comfort.
Listen: “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail” (Lamentations 3:22).
Meditate: “In the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling” (Psalm 27:5).Savor: “My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life” (119:50).Life can never be the same again when someone we love is gone. But God’s promises bring hope and comfort.
Thank You, God, that You are near. You’re always by my side. I’m grateful for Your comfort in my pain and for Your peace.
Hope AnywayBIBLE READ: PSALM 34:15–18 THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
~ Psalm 119:50God’s Word is the true source of comfort.
3 Ways to God When the Path isn't Clear
New Law Not Enough to Stop Mob Violence
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your fa-ther’s family, and go to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1).
God didn’t give Abram (later to be called Abraham) a detailed map or even show him the exact final destination. He basically said,
“Abram, leave your comfort zone and go where I will show you.” However, God also added that he would bless Abram and his descendants if Abram obeyed him. Abram didn’t know where he would end up, but he knew and trusted God’s character, so he obeyed anyway. Abram’s obedience hap-pened one step at a time. With each step, Abram heard a little more from God.
I feel that this is what God requires of me as well. In November, I lost my job. I don’t know exactly where God is taking me next but I am trusting that it will be a good place—a place of blessing. Each day since, I have been doing what I know to do within each day. I’ve been looking, applying, and networking. I’ve also been taking advantage of the time and learning some new skills. All the while remembering that God is a good God who loves to give good gifts to his chil-dren. Each day I feel like I’m a little closer to knowing where he is taking me next and this brings me peace even in the not knowing.
Like Abram, I am learning lessons as I walk through my journey. Three lessons that God is teaching me are:
1. Step Out of My Comfort ZoneGod wants me to continually step out of my comfort zone and trust him with the unknowns. I have to leave room for God to guide me. If God were to come show me step-by-step his exact will for my life, it wouldn’t require faith for me to follow him. Moreover, if I know exactly where I’m going beforehand, the idea probably isn’t from
God. It probably came out of my own head and ideals. God likes me to follow him in faith and trust—not in knowing. This frees me from getting stuck in my own ideas, which often can take me away from God’s will, because let’s face it, my own ideas can be very flawed as well as limited. God sees everything—past, present and future. He is not limited.
When I think back to times when I ac-tually did step out of my comfort zone, it can give me confidence to do it again. A few years ago, I got married and moved many, many miles away from the state that I’d lived in my entire life. I knew it was for a good reason but I didn’t know a lot of the details that I would encounter after the move. But I did it anyway.
2. Take One Step at a TimeThere’s also another reason God doesn’t want me to know too much too soon. If I know too quickly, I might get overwhelmed and give up because it seems too hard. I might know where I’ll end up but I won’t necessarily know how. And, this not know-ing how would cause me to have all kinds of anxious and worried thoughts. Nobody can do their best work under stress. God doesn’t ask me to take a step that is five miles up the road. Each step of this step-by-step ap-proach is made under the daylight of the present moment. Everyone can take one step at a time.
I once tried a ropes course that was over twenty feet above the ground. My initial thought was that there was no way I could balance myself and walk across those ropes. I wore a safety harness but my jitters didn’t seem to understand that I was completely safe. It was still scary. But…as I took one step at a time, I reached my destination.
3. Action Lessens WorryI tend to overanalyze everything and over-analyzing causes me to worry and even be-come paralyzed. Taking action erases a lot of these worries because the act of doing
something takes on a life of its own. I con-centrate on the task at hand, not the results that will come later. Worry about future re-sults usually happens before I ever take an action to complete something. Taking ac-tions regularly is a way of living in the mo-ment and often deletes some of the fears of the future and regrets of the past.
Also in that ropes course, I realized that most of my worries came before I started each section. Thinking about the possibil-ity of falling happened before my first step.
But…when I took the action necessary and started moving, my action really did erase a few fears because I wasn’t thinking about them.
Bonus Lesson: God is With Me as I GoAbram was able to trust God in the not knowing because he believed that God was with him. I also have this assurance because Jesus said, “…be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Even to the end of the age means in every moment
of my life.Is God speaking to you about leav-
ing your comfort zone and going without knowing? If he is, spend some time in the Bible and in reflective thought and wait for him to give you your first step, not the whole plan, just the first step.
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going (Hebrews 11:8).
Himanshu | IANS
Submitting Documents in Govt. Offices Still a Headache
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gov-ernment is about to complete its term and has brought about sev-
eral changes in the area of documenta-tion. But there are still several loopholes which need to be worked upon. In 2014, the government repealed the requirement of providing attested documents for birth certificates, marksheets and other certifi-cates.
Yet, in most government departments, affidavits are still required. For example, to obtain a marriage certificate or to get documerts from the a regional transport office, affidavits need to be submitted and attestation of documents by a notary is still mandatory. Again, for PAN card ap-plications, if a person fails to provide any document for date-of-birth proof, sub-mission of an affidavit is required.
For most of the illiterate or semi-lit-erate people this is a problem. Also, rules are dissimilar across states. The central government needs to ensure that different departments and various states take steps to make uniform rules for document sub-mission.
In the case of birth certificate, it has become a chicken-and-egg situation for the parents. Several municipalities, such as in Gurugram, have made the child's Aadhaar number mandatory for issuing a birth certificate. But without a birth cer-tificate an Aadhaar number is not issued. To simplify matters, linking of birth certifi-cate with Aadhaar should be made volun-tary or the municipalities should accept parent's Aadhaar number as proof.
One of the most problematic area for millennials is the police verification proc-ess for issuing a passport. Migration to metros is not a new trend in India. Every year, millions of students and employees move to a new city in search of better edu-cation and employment opportunities.
Passport verification has become a hassle for this community as most of them do not have proper address proof for their new abode. In its absence, they rely on their home-town address. However, dur-ing verification, police insists on the can-
didate's physical presence at the given ad-dress. In case of a no-show, the passport is rejected. Because of this, almost 30 per cent of passport applications get rejected every year.
This is an issue which can be eas-ily resolved. Police verification serves no purpose, as all the applicants mandatorily visit the passport office, and subsequent verification could be done through the documents submitted.
Another area where government proc-esses need to be simplified is the filing of an Income Tax return. Every government talks about simplifying the filing process, but it is still perceived as complicated by most tax payers. According to one survey, 90 per cent of people still rely on outer sources -- chartered accountants or oth-er professionals -- for filing returns. Real simplification would come when even a semi-literate person can file a return with-out professional help.
The government needs to make the process more user-friendly and mobile responsive. At present, the assumption is that a tax payer is financially literate, which is not true in a majority of cases. Even answers to basic questions are not always available. Something as easy as a chatbot on the income tax website would be helpful.
Another area of frustration for citi-zens is in booking railway tickets -- espe-cially tatkal tickets. The real problem is in matching the demand and supply of train seats -- the whole exercise is opaque. The Railways need to dynamically match the number of coaches and seats available in a transparent manner. Big Data analysis and Artifical Intelligence can be used to keep travellers fully informed about all as-pects of rail reservation.
Most of the problems are easy to solve. Partnerships with private players would bring in the technology and solutions to allow government departments to work in an efficient, open and much less cumber-some manner. Every citizen deserves this.
(Himanshu is the founder of ItzEazy.in, that aims to make the government
documentation process more efficient. The views expressed are personal. He can be contacted at [email protected])
Although the Supreme Court has suggested that a law be enacted specifically to deal with the "new normal" of lynchings, it will be ad-
visable to widen the scope of the legal rem-edy to include all forms of mob violence, even if doubts are likely to remain about the efficacy of the proposed solution.
The wider ambit should include the kill-ings and acts of intimidation of the kind which took place during the recent pancha-yat elections in West Bengal and the sporad-ic targeting of rivals by the followers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Sangh parivar in Kerala.
Politics is the direct cause of these in-stances of violence in the two states while the lynching of beef-eaters and meat traders in other parts of the country underlines the fascist trait of targeting those who are seen as "aliens" who are violating the culinary fet-ishes of the ruling dispensation.
On the other hand, the killing of the suspected kidnappers of children is appar-ently the result of an atmosphere of anarchy which has come to prevail in the absence of a stern enforcement of law and order -- a lacuna which the judiciary wants to be recti-fied to instill fear in the offenders.
It is this last point which offers a clue as to what has gone wrong. Since the miscre-ants are generally no longer afraid of the law-enforcing machinery, will a new law make any difference?
As is known, conscientious officials have always known that no incidents of violence, including communal riots, can continue for any length of time unless there is political instigation. If the police have clear orders to crack down on the unruly elements at the first sign of trouble, an outbreak of lawless-ness can be quickly snuffed out.
The problem, however, is that not only do the trouble-makers almost invariably have political backing, the police are also told by their political masters to let them vent their ire -- at least till it becomes politi-cally damaging because of media coverage.
As the violence during the panchayat polls in West Bengal made it clear, the goons could not have gone around carrying lethal weapons without caring for the television cameras to terrorize the voters and opposi-tion politicians unless they were sure that the ruling party would stand by them.
It is the same with regard to what has been happening in the case of the gau rak-shaks (cow vigilantes) or the group which opposed the screening of the film, "Padma-vat". Those indulging in the murderous acts in front of cameras, or threatening to bury alive an actor and the producer in a televi-sion show, would not have been so brazenly defiant if they were not sure of being on the right side of the powers-that-be.
Although influential ruling party poli-ticians have formally berated the self-ap-pointed protectors of cows, such admoni-tion has had little effect on the ground if only because the large contingent of saffron trolls have unhesitatingly continued to pour their venom on the minority community, empha-sising the large measure of support which the vicious "activists" enjoy.
In addition, their confidence could not but have been boosted by the garlanding of a group of killers by a Union minister or the comparison which a sadhvi (Hindu nun) in Rajasthan drew between another such mur-derous group and Bhagat Singh, the great freedom fighter.
A law against them, therefore, is likely to remain largely ineffectual in circumstances such as these where the "saviours" of cows have a special place of distinction among the denizens of the corridors of power.
It is obvious that behind the present
fraught conditions is the deterioration in the calibre of politicians whose only objective is to remain in power even if it means bending the administrative system for their partisan advantage by undermining the autonomy and professionalism of the various services, especially the police. The latter are perhaps the most culpable as they have patently be-come pliant tools in the hands of the politi-cians.
It cannot be gainsaid, therefore, that a new law will do little other than adorn the statute book. It is in this depressing context that the Supreme Court's 2006 judgement has to be recalled, which called upon the centre and the state governments to insulate the police from politicians.
Needless to say, no government has paid any heed till now to the judiciary's diktat and is unlikely to do so in the future since abiding by it would rob them of the "right" to misuse the vast powers which the law vests in the rulers.
As long as the police remains a caged parrot, to quote what the Supreme Court said about the supposedly "autonomous" Central Bureau of Investigation, the lynch mobs have little to fear.
(Amulya Ganguli is a political analyst. The views expressed are personal. He can be
reached at [email protected])
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ARIES (MAR 21 - APR 19): Things may roll along nicely in love and romance and then suddenly run into a snag, Aries. Perhaps you failed to recognize an important birthday or
anniversary. Perhaps you were expected to act a certain way or do something you failed to do. Approach the per-son you hurt honestly and apologetically. You write your own rules. Your way may differ from someone else’s, but that doesn’t make it better or worse.
TAURUS (APR 20 - MAY 20): Here’s a re-minder that it’s OK to be you. You may feel more centered than usual, which encour-ages you to stand up for yourself and say
the things you must to people who need to hear them. There may have been recent arguments with a partner, but those should subside now, thanks to today’s serene feelings. Perhaps you’ve gained greater insight into the cause of the tension. Share this with the person you’ve been arguing with.
GEMINI (MAY 21 - JUN 21): You may have that awful feeling that you really need to get down to work yet something seems to stand square in the way of progress. Perhaps you feel like
you’re at a four-way stop with three other cars. Everyone is anxious to go first. You can’t all go at once, yet no one knows whose turn it is. Don’t put the pedal to the metal. Instead, ease slowly into the intersection and clearly sig-nal your intentions.
CANCER (JUN 22 - JUL 22): You’re anxious to take action, Cancer, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. Be careful about act-ing too hastily. It’s important that you and
your loved one be on the same page first. You’re prob-ably ready to jump to the end of the book where every-one lives happily ever after. There’s a whole story that has to play out first. Feel free to take aggressive action, but make sure that you temper it with a dash of com-mon sense.
LEO (JUL 23 - AUG 22): It may feel as if some-thing or someone is trying to keep you from moving ahead with your ambitious goals and aggressive nature, Leo. At first you may resent
this ball and chain attached to your ankle, but on closer examination, you’ll see that this hindrance is actually a help. For now it’s serving as an important reminder to slow down and do more thinking and planning before taking action.
VIRGO (AUG 23 - SEP 22): You’re apt to feel more talkative than usual, Virgo. There are many times when you may shrink from a situ-ation in disgust or perhaps boredom. You’re
usually anxious to move from one scene and get on with the next. Feel free to call the shots and speak your mind. Others are more likely to listen to what you have to say, so be honest when someone comes to you with a ques-tion or situation that he or she needs help with.
LIBRA (SEP 23 - OCT 22): You may be anxious to try an uncharted path that speaks to your sense of risk and adventure, Libra. It’s im-portant to temper these actions with realistic
planning. You’re much more likely to get a flat tire when you don’t carry a spare. Make sure you have the proper resources to pull yourself out of any jam along the way. The old way of doing things is practical, tested, and tried and true for a reason, so don’t dismiss it altogether.
SCORPIO (OCT 23 - NOV 21): Other people are likely to be anxious to get up and moving with their plans, Scorpio. It might be better for you to hang back a bit and see how things pan out
before you take action. Let others go across the river first to learn the best way. Do you take a boat, wade, or look for a bridge? Let someone else be the guinea pig so you’ll have all the information you need to make the most pru-dent decision on how to proceed.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 - DEC 21): Your heart has been active, Sagittarius, and you’re probably feeling the need to take charge of a certain relationship. Instead of being too
hasty in your pursuit of this romance, you should probably do more planning. Look at the situation from a long-term perspective and see if the partner-ship is heading the way you want it to, based on how things are moving now. It could be that you’re jump-ing ahead of the game.
CAPRICORN (DEC 22 - JAN 19): There is solid grounding to your emotions right now that is helping you stabilize your sensitive feelings, Capricorn. As you become more attuned to
your internal needs, you may discover that recent ac-tions in romance and love may not have been particu-larly appropriate. They could have seemed satisfying at the time, but on closer examination you may discover that you were compromising in order to make it seem like everything was working the way you wanted it to.
AQUARIUS (JAN 20 - FEB 18): Your relation-ships are going well from an intellectual per-spective, Aquarius, but from an emotional one, you might feel like they aren’t as fulfilling as
you’d like. Perhaps you’re letting your brain do too much of the driving. It’s time to let your heart take over and have its needs be tended to for a while. As your energy shifts, so will that of people around you. Let them react however they will. Try not to be upset by the changes that follow.
PISCES (FEB 19 - MAR 20): Concentrate on nurturing your needs right now instead of trying to accommodate the needs of others, Pisces. There is a difficult tension that arises
when you try to comfort someone who really doesn’t want to be comforted. The best way to handle the situation is to leave the person alone and tend to your own emotions. If you’re more stable and clear, you’ll be better able to help others. Take this time to recharge your own batteries.
Today’s ASTRO-PREDICTION
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The Graceful, and Graceless, Pursuits of Peace in the Quantum WorldThere is a fragility among quantum states that makes mathematical order easier to summon out of the
chaos of reality, in a way that gravity never aspires to in its stabler demesne.
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A wide swath of fundamental phys-ics and chemistry is defined by the pursuit of the ground state. Since we began elucidating the structure
of the atom in the 1910s, much of what we know about how particles, quasiparticles and molecules behave can be described by a desire among each of these entities to lose all the energy that they can in the given circumstances and simply exist with the bare minimum. This is why the ground state is both an illuminating and fascinat-ing object of study: the former because it is what particles are always tending towards and the latter because it is the ultimate des-tiny of the ergic constituents of our world, symbolising a kind of particulate amor fati. The ground state is the home to which all matter seeks to return; by studying the home and the forces that keep it, we can explain to a large extent the nature of the things that want to return there.
“The ground state is interesting be-cause small excitations above it are what we effectively mean by (quasi)particles,” says Madhusudhan Raman, a theoreti-cal physicist. “That is, when you find the right variables in which to study small excitations of the ground state, you have understood your physical system pertur-batively.”
For example, the electrons around an atomic nucleus are forbidden from occu-pying the same… the same what? “Might I suggest an analogy?” Raman butts in. “Electrons are like home-owners: they may live in the same town, or even on the same street, but no two electrons live together. That is the exclusion principle.” And all the electrons in an atom are concentric vis-a-vis the atomic nucleus. By asking why they would do this when they could all simply journey around the nucleus in an orbit that affords them the lowest energy possible, we come upon the work of Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi, among others. By wondering if other particles in other systems are subjugated similarly, we come upon the work of Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, among others.
Why, fast-forward to 2011, when the Higgs boson was discovered because the unstable amount of energy it embodied ‘decayed’ into clumps of lighter, long-
lived and so more observable particles. If particles didn’t behave this way, the Large Hadron Collider would be completely use-less – nor would we have had last week’s ex-citing blazar neutrino discovery.
A choice example from the realm of physics is the superconductor, which – as we all know – is a material that can conduct an electric current with zero resistance. One way to explain this phenomenon is by taking recourse through BCS theory, which imagines the electrons in a superconduc-tor to have joined up in specific circum-stances to form so-called Cooper pairs, effectively getting transformed from be-ing fermions of higher energy to bosons of lower energy. And bosons are exempt from Pauli’s exclusion principle, free to form a phase of matter called the condensate at low temperatures. This condensate sea of electrons is what conducts the electric-ity. “This, incidentally, is a good example of finding the right ground state,” Raman said.
Superconductors are comparable to time crystals, a hypothetical crystal whose particulate constituents would be in mo-tion in their ground state. The principle difference between them is that time crys-tals exhibit the spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry (as explained here), whereas superconductors don’t. However, superconductors are still cooler – not least for their befuddling variety and their involvement in kooky experiments to uncover anomalous quantum effects and ‘artificial’ particles.
Unfortunately, all these materials and their properties are very difficult to engi-neer and then observe in action. In most cases, the observation itself consists of watching numbers on a screen or reading pre-recorded data. Compare this to how exciting it would be to observe an object os-cillating between either sides of its ground state in a classical setting. Of course, this also would be hard to engineer because the object would have to act against grav-ity, which takes a lot of work, which in turn takes a lot of energy (think of Newton’s cra-dle). Perhaps it can be made to work if we went just a little smaller, unto a scale where the object is heavy enough to be affected by gravity but also light enough to be affected by one of the other fundamental forces, preferably in the form of a controllable
electrochemical reaction.This is somewhat the case with the mer-
cury heartbeat experiment. Place a drop of mercury in a small pool of acid with an iron nail at a short distance from the drop. The acid strips off electrons from the mercury atoms it comes in contact with, ionising them and forcing them to repel each other. This causes the mercury drop to flatten out – and make contact with the iron nail. The nail has enough negative electrochemi-cal potential, i.e. functions as an anode, to deionise the mercury atoms and cause them to pull themselves together again thanks to surface tension. As a result, the drop de-flattens into a sphere-like shape, loses contact with the iron nail and starts the cycle all over again.
Last week, scientists from China an-nounced that they’d done something simi-lar with liquid gallium – but with more in-teresting effect. They filled a petri dish with sodium hydroxide, placed 50-150 microli-tres of liquid gallium at its centre and then set up a graphite fence around it. The fence would act like the nail in the mercury ex-periment if it was positively charged with a DC current. When the dish was tilted slightly, the gallium flowed down towards the fence and came in contact. Its surface became electrified, i.e. gallium atoms lost electrons to become ions, and the surface tension vanished. As the drop spread out over the incline for more of it to come in contact with the fence, the amount of elec-trification also increased, eventually caus-ing the liquid and the fence to repel each other so much that the former moved back up the incline – cutting contact, reacting with the base to regain electrons, restoring surface tension and flowing back down the incline.
It is an abusive relationship. The liquid gallium is forced to oscillate between being a droplet at the centre of the dish and being a pancake in contact with the fence, where-as all it would like to do is not have the in-cline and just lounge on its basic bed. Sadly, it is not going to have its paradise anytime soon because the Chinese team found that the gallium’s ‘heartbeat’ movement up and down the incline could be controlled by the amount of DC current supplied – whereas the mercury’s ‘heartbeat’ throb couldn’t be controlled by the iron nail. In their paper, the Chinese group writes,
A comparatively special feature of the gallium-based liquid oscillator is that the electrochemistry allows the beating to be activated or deactivated just using
an applied DC voltage. … Without the applied voltage, the drop docks with the inner side of the electrode due to
the electrode inclination. The voltage causes the drop to self-actuate and a
stable periodic motion is obtained soon afterward. … The oscillations stop after the voltage is removed. The motion can end abruptly; although in some cases, slower irregular beats persist for a few
more cycles after the voltage is removed, indicating stored charges on the drop. Despite some background mechanical vibrations in the apparatus, the liquid
metal itself shows a behaviour that is self-correcting and self-regulating,
governed by a well-defined characteristic frequency… This indicates that the phenomena occur at a steady-state
frequency that is relatively robust against mechanical perturbations.
Numerous reports (listed below) have appeared on the web discussing the po-tential of this gallium pulse to power robot muscles of the future – which is to reduce the quasi-sublime beauty of what is hap-pening here to the pithiness of a battery, and move on. But don’t move on just yet.
The transmission of forces and the pro-gression of a phenomenon happens faster in the quantum realm than in the classical one. Moreover, the phenomena also seem ‘cleaner’ in that there is no arbitrary, an-thropogenic intervention apart from the preservation of certain state variables. For example, maintaining a cryogenic temper-ature is necessary for a superconductor to come to life – but the performance of su-perconductivity does not demand continu-ous human intervention in the form of, say, an iron nail or an electrified graphite fence.
Of course, superconductors are a cher-ry-picked example, possibly even a flawed one because the line between human in-tervention and the need to preserve a func-tionally conducive environment vanishes completely in many other examples. One is the discovery last year of Majorana modes in a topological superconductor: the mate-rial in question does not exist in nature, is almost impossible to create by accident and can only be built by an intelligent species.
Given this, did the scientists discover the Majorana modes or did they invent them?
Classical examples, on the other hand, don’t present such conundra, at least not as often as their quantum counterparts do. It is easier when gravity lords over the other fundamental forces to tell apart natural occurrences from synthesised ones – just as easily as one can differentiate between greatness and transcendentalism. To illus-trate how, consider two objects that behave strangely at or near their ground states: the Cooper pairs condensate and the liquid gal-lium/sodium hydroxide/graphite ensem-ble. The condensate has zero viscosity and can keep flowing forever. There is here a deeper alteration of the substance’s nature, so much so that the essence of the sum is not the essence of its parts. But this is not so with liquid gallium, which in comparison is dramatic prose but prosaic nonetheless.
The implicit inferiority of the gallium and mercury examples is further borne out by the introduction of an incline and a nail. The petri dish had to be inclined at some angle to kickstart the experiment, the nail had to positioned at a short distance from the droplet to jumpstart the throbbing. Such considerations are arbitrary – and they’re arbitrary because their precision is inconsequential. Perhaps the petri dish could be tilted at 45º if enough current is supplied to the graphite corral. Perhaps the iron nail could be placed 10 cm away from the mercury if there is enough mercury and enough electrolyte. However, a supercon-ductor just won’t superconduct above its critical temperature, no matter how many electrons are available or what the shape of the material is.
There is a fragility that makes math-ematical order easier to summon, and behold, out of the chaos of reality, a sort of principled existence that draws sharper lines between ground states and excited states in a way that gravity never aspires to in its stabler demesne. This is certainly one reason why we choose to be interested in quantum mechanics even as we keep our didactic metaphors in the classical do-main. The quantum offers the asymptoti-cally perfect realisation of natural beauty and the classical offers a crude grammar to translate between physics and aesthetics. The ground state, of course, is the pursuit that unites them both.
Officials from around the world have been de-bating for two months now the text of the final
declaration which is due to be re-leased at the first-ever UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Ending Tuberculosis in September this year.
The Wire has reviewed the cur-rent draft of the declaration – one of the last iterations of it – which was prepared on Friday, July 20. This draft will probably be dis-cussed in what may the last round of talks on Monday.
The draft has completely dropped critical language which developing countries were fight-ing for – language that would pro-tect the rights of these develop-ing countries to access affordable medicines via TRIPS (Trade-Relat-ed Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) flexibilities.
Developing countries like In-dia, Brazil, South Africa and Egypt had been pushing back against the
US in the many rounds of talks in New York over this text so far.
While the US did not want the declaration to mention TRIPS flex-ibilities, these countries along with others in the G-77 and the EU had so far been resisting the pressure. Previous drafts of this text had in-cluded mentions of TRIPS flexibili-ties.
The lack of mention of TRIPS flexibilities in this draft, at this fi-nal stage, has caused alarm in the global public health community, which has been watching the ne-gotiations closely. The fear is that the US has managed to strong-arm developing countries, against their best interests, to give up affordable access to medicines for TB.
The matter should be of urgent concern to India as the govern-ment has committed to eliminat-ing TB by 2025, even though the global goal for this has been set as 2030.
A press release from Medecins Sans Frontières said,
“The U.S. is exerting extreme
pressure on other negotiators by refusing to sign the declaration at the U.N. General Assembly in September if language such as
paragraph (PP19) that “recognizes the importance of affordable
medicines” and “urges countries to enforce intellectual property rules
in ways that promote access” is included.”
“We’re appealing to all coun-tries, including those in the Group of 77, and Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, that have a high burden of TB, to urgently stand up right now against bully-ing that aims to keep medicines out of the hands of your people who need treatment,” said Leena Menghaney, South Asia head of MSF’s access campaign.
Thiru Balasubramaniam at Knowledge Ecology International said, “The [Donald] Trump admin-istration has engaged in a full court press to purge the political declara-tion of the UN High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis from references to the WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public
Health and the use of TRIPS flex-ibilities.”
In the area of public health, TRIPS allows countries certain flexibilities in order to protect their citizens from medicines being un-affordable due to patent monopo-lies. For example, it legally allows countries the ability to issue ‘com-pulsory licenses’ which can over-ride patents, allow generic drugs and drop prices.
The UN High Level meet will re-lease this ‘Political Declaration on Fight Against Tuberculosis’ in Sep-tember and the text is vital because it will indicate the direction of the global community in acting against TB. It will cover areas such as re-search funding as well as develop-ment of new drugs and treatments.
What earlier drafts saidThe Wire has reviewed versions of this “draft elements paper” from May 30, June 8, June 25, July 10 and the current draft, from July 20.
As of the version on July 10, the provisions on TRIPS flexibilities were still maintained in the text, in
the preambular as well as opera-tive portions.
For example, the operative por-tion in this draft had a substantial section on TRIPS, with the EU and G-77 countries in support of keep-ing that language in, and the US stand on it being “delete para”.
“The use to the full, of existing flexibilities under the Agreement
on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPS) specifically geared to promoting access to and trade in medicines; and ensure that
intellectual property rights provision in trade agreements
do not undermine existing flexibilities, as confirmed in the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS
Agreement and Public Health…”However, the July 20 draft does
not have this section at all. It only mentions TRIPS flexibilities once, in the perambulatory section, and there is no mention in the impor-tant operative section:
“further recalling the 2001 WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS
Agreement and Public Health which recognizes that intellectual
property rights should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of the
right of Member States to protect public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all, and that intellectual property rights are an important incentive in the development of new health
products”The US media has been re-
porting on this matter. Earlier this month, Stat reported on US pres-sure on this declaration: “Amid growing frustration over the cost and development of tuberculosis medicines, the U.S. government is pushing changes in global policy at a United Nations meeting.”
In June, Politico Europe report-ed that the US and EU were both trying to strike off language on “delinking” in this TB declaration. Delinking is the idea that research and development costs should not be linked to the price and volume of sales of a medicine, as this will keep the prices of medicines low.
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Rahul Gandhi has seriously hurt image of Indian politician before the world — Jaitley
No-trust: Sena compares Modi to France, Rahul to Croatia
Mamata raises oust BJP pitch, says it will get less than 100 LS seats in 2019
National Herald case: Swamy records his statement in Delhi court
Rajasthan: Man lynched on suspicion of cow smuggling
Modi voices confidence over winning 2019 polls; calls Rahul childishModi’s jibe at Rahul’s hug exposes his politics of hate – Congress
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses during the annual Martyr’s Day rally, in Kolkata on Saturday.
new Delhi, July 21 (Pti): Accusing Rahul Gandhi of “concocting” a conversa-tion with French President Emmanuel Macron, Un-ion Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Congress President has seriously hurt the image of an In-dian politician before the world at large.
Participating in the de-bate on ‘no-confidence motion’ in the Lok Sabha yesterday Gandhi said that Macron told him that there was no binding se-crecy clause in the Rafale deal. The statement was denied by the French gov-ernment.
“Rahul Gandhi, by concocting a conversation with President Macron, has lowered his own cred-ibility and seriously hurt the image of an Indian politician before the world at large,” Jaitley said in a Facebook post.
The minister also hit out at the Congress Presi-dent accusing him of trivi-alising the no-confidence motion debate stressing “facts are always sacro-sanct”.
“None should ever triv-ialise the debate. Those
Mumbai, July 21 (Pti): Drawing a parallel be-tween the FIFA World Cup final and the no-confi-dence motion, the Shiv Sena today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have emerged vic-torious like France, but Congress chief Rahul Gan-dhi won many hearts like runners-up Croatia.
“In the football World Cup final, France won (the title), but Croatia is remembered for the man-ner in which they played. Rahul is now being talked in the same way.
When one plays such politics, he moves four-five steps ahead,” Shiv Sena spokesperson San-jay Raut said.
Responding to Gan-dhi’s hug to Modi, Raut said such gestures were meant to attract attention. If Gandhi did so to give a jolt to Modi, then he has succeeded, Raut told a news channel here.
The Rajya Sabha MP said Gandhi should be congratulated for donning a new avatar during the debate in the Lok Sabha on the no-trust motion yesterday.
A combative Gandhi had launched a vitriolic at-tack on the Modi govern-
ment on multiple issues, from farmer distress to the Rafale jet deal.
Raut described the de-feat of the no-trust motion as not surprising since the BJP-led NDA enjoyed a comfortable majority in the Lower House. “Power has its own strengths and there is the fear element as well.
The no-confidence motion against the Modi government was defeated by a margin of 325-126. The no-trust motion -- moved by former BJP ally TDP -- saw Shiv Sena ab-staining from voting.
The voting took place after an acrimonious de-bate that witnessed po-litical gamesmanship with Gandhi hugging the PM who hit back, saying he was in a hurry to unseat him and grab his chair.
In last Sunday’s World Cup final, France defeat-ed underdogs Croatia 4-2. While Les Bleus received accolades for its performance, it was Croatia -- a tiny Europe-an nation with a popula-tion of around 4.5 million -- that won the hearts of millions of soccer fans across the globe for the way it played in the show-piece tournament.
Kolkata, July 21 (ianS): Raising the pitch for her proposed Federal Front of opposition parties, Tri-namool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked her par-ty workers to launch a fortnight-long campaign from August 1 to defeat the ‘communal BJP’.
Banerjee predicted that the saffron outfit could end up with less than 100 seats in next year’s general election.
She also said her party would organise a “huge” rally in the city on January 19 next year, where “lead-ers from all over the coun-try”, including those of the proposed Front would call for defeating the BJP at the centre.
Addressing party work-ers on the party’s Martyrs’ Day rally, she said: “Bengal will show the way to India, we will show the way to Parliament in the coming days.”
Banerjee said the Au-gust campaign would have the slogan ‘remove communal BJP, save the country’.
“On Aaugust 15 (Inde-pendence Day), all of you should raise the Tricolour and take a vow to ensure that none from the BJP raises the national flag from the Red Fort from 2019 onwards,” she told her party workers.
new Delhi, July 21 (Pti): BJP lead-er Subramanian Swamy today recorded his statement before a Delhi court in the National Herald case, filed by him against Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi and other accused.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal recorded a part of Swamy’s statement and posted the matter for hearing on August 25, when it will record the remaining part of his statement.
The BJP leader, in a private criminal complaint, has accused the Gandhis and others of con-spiring to cheat and misappropri-ate funds by paying only INR 50 lakh, through which Young Indian Pvt Ltd (YI) obtained the right to recover INR 90.25 crore that As-sociate Journals Ltd owed to the Congress.
The court had summoned the accused persons and YI on June 26, 2014.
On December 19, 2015, it granted bail to Sonia Gandhi, Ra-hul Gandhi, Vora, Fernandes and Dubey, who have appeared before it pursuant to the summonses.
Pitroda was granted bail on February 20, 2016 after he ap-peared in the court.
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gan-dhi, Vora, Fernandes, Dubey and Pitroda were summoned for the alleged offences of misappropria-tion of property, criminal breach of trust and cheating, read with criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code.
Jaipur, July 21 (Pti): A man was al-legedly lynched today in Rajasthan’s Alwar district by a group of people who accused him of smuggling cows, police said today.
Akbar Khan, 28, and his friend Aslam were taking two cows to their village in Haryana through a forested area near Lalawandi in Alwar district last night when five men attacked them, Ramgarh police station SHO Subhash Sharma said.
They suspected that Khan was smuggling cows but the allegation is yet to be verified, Sharma said.
The police arrested two men, even as Rajasthan chief Minister Vasundhara Raje promised stern ac-tion in the case.
The opposition Congress called it a horrific incident, which comes a little over a year after another Mus-lim man, Pehlu Khan, was allegedly killed by cow vigilantes.
Khan narrated the incident to policemen who arrived at the spot.
He died on the way to a govern-ment hospital in Ramgarh. Khan’s family members have demanded quick action in the case.
Jaipur range Inspector General Hemant Priyadarshi said two of the accused, Dharmendra Yadav and Paramjeet Singh Sardar, have been arrested, According to the victim’s last statement, he was thrashed by five people, the official said.
Others involved in the attack will be arrested soon, he said at a press conference.
He said Khan and his friend Aslam had reportedly purchased the cows from Ladpur village and were taking them to Kolgaon in Nuh district in Haryana when they were beaten up.
Khan’s friend Aslam escaped from the mob, and his statement was yet to be recorded, police said this afternoon.
Prima facie, Khan died due to internal injuries and it was under investigation whether he and Aslam had any past record of cow smug-gling, Priyadarshini said.
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje condemned the lynching.
“The incident of alleged lynching of a person transporting bovines in Alwar district is condemnable. Strict-est possible action shall be taken against the perpetrators,” she said.
But opposition leaders criticised her government for failing to stop such attacks.
Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot termed the incident horrific . He said the man was lynched despite the Supreme Court’s warnings.
Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot too blamed the BJP govern-ment, saying killing of people on “suspicion” is sadly becoming a norm in BJP-ruled states.
He said Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s words in Parlia-ment yesterday that it was the state governments’ responsibility to stop incidents of mob lynching seemed even more hollow now.
In April last year, Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer, was lynched by cow vigilantes in Alwar district when he was transporting cattle to his village in Haryana. The mob suspected that Pehlu Khan was smuggling cows. He died two days after being attacked.
Also in Alwar district, 35-year-old mar Khan was found dead near the railway tracks in November. His fam-ily members alleged he was killed by cow vigilantes.
new Delhi, July 21 (ianS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly hit out at Congress President Rahul Gandhi accusing him of ar-rogance, negativity, childish conduct and a burning desire to become PM.
Modi said he was extending best wishes to the Congress and other opposition parties to bring another no-confidence motion in 2024.
Modi replied to the debate on no-confidence motion, moved by TDP’s Jayadev Galla, against the government in the Lok Sabha, said the Congress lacked self-confidence and had no faith in Chief Justice of India, Elec-tion Commission, Electronic Voting Machines, Reserve Bank of India and programmes like Swachh Bharat.
The motion was defeated by 325 votes to 126.
Replying to barbs of Gandhi, Modi said he is “kaamdar” and “not a naam-dar” and could not see him in the eye.
“They have confidence in nothing. Today the nation has seen the negativ-ity expressed by some members. India saw how some people are so deeply opposed to development. What we saw among members of the opposi-tion was sheer arrogance. The only thing they have to say-remove Modi. To remove one Modi, see who all they are trying to bring together,” he said.
Modi, who was loudly cheered by treasury benches, attacked Gandhi over his remarks on Doklam stand off with China and the Rafale fighter jet deal with France.
“One of the leaders spoke about Doklam. The same leader, who be-lieved the Chinese Ambassador over our forces. What have we come to? Everything does not merit a childish conduct. Due to one careless allega-tion in the House on Rafale, both nations had to release statements. My appeal to the Congress is please do not bring politics in national security,” the Prime Minister said. He alleged the Congress had described the surgical strike of 2016 as “jumla strike”. “We have seen how the Army chief was insulted by their leaders. You have called surgical strike a jumla strike, the country will not forgive you. You can abuse Modi but not the forces. Stop insulting the jawans of India,” he said.
Modi, who spoke for nearly 90 minutes alos attacked UPA chairper-son Sonia Gandhi over her remarks on Wednesday that the opposition had the numbers in the no-confidence vote. “See her arrogance. I was re-minded about 1999 when she stood outside Rashtrapati Bhavan and said-we have 272 and more are joining us. She destabilized Atal Ji’s government
and never formed one herself,” he said.
He blamed the Congress for the huge non-performing assets of banks, saying that loans disbursed had in-creased to Rs 52 lakh crore during UPA rule. “I want to tell you about the NPA problem. Much before Internet Bank-ing, Congress Party invented Phone Banking and this caused the NPA mess. A phone call would get loans for their cronies and the nation suffered,” he said. Referring to the triple talaq bill, Modi said the government stands with the Muslim women in their quest for justice. He also condemned mob lynchings and said any instance of violence brings shame to the nation. “I will once again urge the state govern-ments to punish those who indulge in violence.”
Modi said India is seeing the record pace of work in various sectors such as roads and railways.
Taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi over winking to a party colleague after hug-ging him, Modi said: “The entire na-tion saw what the eyes did. It is clear in front of everyone. In the morning, the voting was not over, the debate was also not over one member comes run-ning to me saying - Utho Utho Utho...
“What is his hurry to come to power? Let me tell this member it is
the people who elected us. That is how we have come here,” he said referring to Gandhi coming to hug him.
Countering Gandhi’s jibe that Modi was not a “chowkidar” but a “bhagidaar” in the gains of corporates, Modi said he was a bhagidar in the march of poor for development, but not a “saudagar” or “thekedar” like the Congress.
He also accused the Congress of practicing the politics of “emotional b l a c k m a i l i n g Dalits and the deprived”.
“There is a conspiracy to push the country towards violence.
These were the people who made fun of Baba Ambedkar but are now singing his praises. Whoever came in front of the dreams and aspirations of one family was pushed to the side-lines.”
He blamed the Congress for parti-tion between India and Pakistan and said the country was still suffering because of that.
He slammed Congress over the way it had bifurcated Andhra Pradesh and said the government was commit-ted towards its development as also of Telangana.
The Congress on Saturday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Mo-di’s jibe at Rahul Gandhi for hugging him during the no confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, saying it “exposes his politics of hate”.
“Modi is mocking Rahul Gandhi’s hug, which was given out of pure grace,” Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill told media here.
“This completely exposes Modi’s politics of hate,” he said. The Congress leader’s remarks came soon
after the Prime Minister, addressing a farmers’ rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur, mocked the Congress President for hugging him dur-ing the no confidence motion in Lok Sabha on Friday. Slamming Modi for hugging his then
Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif during his visit to Lahore in 2015, Shergill said: “If he can hug Pakistan’s Prime Minister, then why can-not he show the same grace towards people of his own country?”
He also said that nation is fed up with Modi’s event management style of politics and is, in fact, craving for a sound governance.
Hitting out at Modi, he said the Prime Minister “conveniently sidestepped vital issues raised by the Congress President”, as he was “bereft of facts and statistics”d.
“Yesterday, when Modi faced questions from Congress President Rahul Gandhi, he seemed like a student who was facing a question paper in exam. “It seemed like the question paper was on mathemat-ics, but Modi’s answers were of history,” he said. Attacking Modi over his promises to the farmers, Shergill said: “He had promised to improve lives of farmers, but instead ruined them with his ill-thought policies.” “Modi must answer why there is a 40 per cent rise in farm-ers’ suicide cases in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh?”
who desire to be Prime Minister never blend ig-norance, falsehood and acrobatics.”
In the post titled “Fri-volity and the No Confi-dence Motion”, Jaitley said the lead participants in the debate are normally senior political leaders. They are expected to raise the level of political discourse.
“A Vote of No Confi-dence against the Govern-ment is a serious business. It is not an occasion for
frivolity,” he said.The minister said if a
participant in the debate happens to be a president of a national political party nourishing prime minis-terial aspirations, every word he speaks should be precious.
His facts should con-vey credibility.
The NDA gover n-ment yesterday faced the no-confidence motion brought in by opposition in Parliament yesterday.
The government won the motion by 325 against 126 votes in the Lok Sabha.
In his speech, Gandhi had launched a frontal attack on the NDA gov-ernment over unfulfilled promises and questioned the Rafale deal, demand-ing answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on why he allegedly fa-voured a particular busi-nessman in the contract.
Stating that Gandhi missed a great opportu-
nity, Jaitley said “if this was his best argument for 2019, God help his party”.
Attacking Gandhi, Jaitley said his lack of un-derstanding is not only confined to basic issues but also to the niceties of protocol.
“One should never misquote a conversation with a Head of Govern-ment or a Head of State. You do it once, serious people will be reluctant to speak to you or speak in your presence,” the min-ister said.
On Gandhi’s accusa-tion about secrecy of the Rafale fighter jet deal, Jait-ley said the UPA govern-ment itself had entered into the secrecy pact.
“Rahul has repeatedly shown that he is ignorant of facts. But to insist on disclosure of financial de-tails, which indirectly in-volves the disclosures of the strategic equipment on the aircraft, is to hurt national interest. Cost gives away a clue to the weaponry in the aircraft,” Jaitley said.
He said there is no minister who either de-sires to change or is con-
stitutionally entitled to change the Constitution of India.
Referring to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Jaitley said the last Indian politician who wanted the power to change the Constitution was Rahul’s grandmother and “she too failed”.
Taking a dig at Gandhi, he said hallucinations can give momentary pleasure to a person.
“Therefore, to halluci-nate after an embarrass-ing performance that he has won future election or to hallucinate that he is the reincarnation of Mark Antony being comple-mented by friends and foes alike, may give him self-satisfaction but for se-rious observers it is more than just self-praise in fact a serious problem.
“Even in dynasties many successors remind you of the virtues of their predecessors. Yesterday, I reread two of Panditji’s (former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru) legen-dary speeches Tryst with Destiny’ and Light has gone out of Lives’, Jaitley said.
She appealed to Trina-mool activists to work for the victory of the party in all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the next year’s general elections.
Banerjee said the Janu-ary 19 rally would be held at the sprawling Brigade Parade ground, “from where we will be giving a call to capture power at the Centre.”
“I will bring leaders from across the country on the stage, including those from the Federal Front,” she said. “We will organise the rally in a big way...our workers should ensure a
bigger turnout than to-day’s,” said. Banerjee
The Trinamool supre-mo, who has in the past made clear her national ambitions, said: “We don’t like the chair (top post) that much, we don’t care for the chair, but we care for the country, the people, the soil of the land”.
Referring to the NDA government’s victory in the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Friday, Banerjee said: “They got 325 votes compared to the opposition’s 126, but BJP on its own did not get a majority. The AIADMK
voted in their favour. Had AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa been alive, they would not have received their votes. They would have lost,” she claimed.
“I doubt if they would manage to get even 100 seats in 2019,” she added.
Banerjee said the saf-fron party would perform poorly in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Gujarat, which they had swept in 2014.
“They would also not able to do much in West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha,” she added.
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News IN BrIefIndependent candidate commits suicide ahead of Pak pollsLahore, July 21 (PTI): An independent candidate contesting in Pakistan’s July 25 polls to Parliament and the provincial assembly from the Punjab province has reportedly committed suicide over a dispute with his sons, a media report said today. Mirza Mohammad Ahmed Mughal was contesting from NA-103 and PP-103 constituencies in Faisalabad as an independent candidate. He reportedly shot himself dead after some dispute with his sons, the Geo News reported. The body of Mughal, contesting the polls on the electoral symbol of pickup truck, was recovered from a graveyard. Following the death, the Election Commission of Pakistan has postponed the polls in both the constituencies, the report said.
12 die in road accident in central MexicoMexico City, July 21 (IANS): Twelve people were killed on Friday when their van plowed into the back of a truck on the Mexico City-Pachuca highway near the city of Ecatepec, in the state of Mexico, authorities said. The accident took place Friday morning on the Mexico City-bound lanes and all of the fatalities were people traveling in the van, Efe reported. According to authorities, the van, which was travelling at a very speed, lost its breaks and crashed into the truck that was parked on the side of the highway, without its hazard lights on. First responders soon arrived at the scene of the accident, where they confirmed that 12 people had been killed, while nine others who had been injured were taken to nearby hospitals.
Toddler dies in accidental shooting in USNew York, July 21 (IANS): A two-year-old girl has died after being accidentally shot by her four-year-old cousin who got hold of a gun at a home in the US state of California, said police. The 53-year-old grandfather of the victim has been arrested for child endangerment, KABC TV reported. The shooting happened around 9 a.m. at a home in Duffy Street in San Bernardino’s Muscoy area on Friday, the sheriff ’s office told the media. A neighbour said: “When they brought her out, she had a little patch right here over her chest. It didn’t look like a big hole. They were pumping her as they put her in the ambulance.” The boy allegedly involved in the shooting was also visibly distraught as he was carried out of the home, KABC TV reported.
US Ex-President George HW Bush’s cardiologist killedWashington, July 21 (IANS): A cardiologist who treated former US President George H.W. Bush, has been killed in a bicycle-to-bicycle drive-by shooting near Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said. Mark Hausknecht, 65, was killed on Friday around 9 a.m. It could have been either a random or a targeted incident, the Houston Police Department said as a probe got underway. “As the suspect rode past the doctor, he turned and fired two shots. The doctor immediately went down,” Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner said. Hausknecht flagged down a passing ambulance for help as the shooter fled the scene. The doctor was taken to Ben Taub Hospital, where he later died.
Dozens of Tunisian boat migrants to be deported — ItalyRome, July 21 (IANS/AKI): Fifty-seven Tunisian migrants who were picked up off the Sicilian coast and brought ashore overnight at the port of Trapani will be repatriated “very soon”, a source at Italy’s Interior Ministry said on Friday. “The migrants will be deported very soon under an agreement between Italy and Tunisia,” the source said. The migrants are all adult males and “operations will start on Monday”, the source added. A total of 66 Tunisian migrants including women and children had disembarked in Trapani on Monday after they were rescued by Italian coastguard off the island of Pantelleria.
Thousands rally in Nepal in support of fasting doctorKathmandu, July 21 (PTI): Several people were injured when protestors clashed with Nepal police as thousands of activists held demonstration outside the parliament here in support of a veteran medical activist, fasting for nearly a month, demanding reforms in the country’s medical sector. Police fired multiple rounds of teargas shells and resorted to baton charge after the protestors raising anti-government slogans tried to enter the restricted area near the Parliament building at Nayabeneshwor. Dr Govinda KC, 61, has been fasting since June 30 seeking reforms in the medical sector including not allowing permission to open new medical colleges in Kathmandu and withdrawing a medial bill the government is planning to table in the Parliament, saying it was against the welfare of the poor people.
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Mallory Cunningham, left, Santino Tomasetti, center, and Aubrey Reece attend a candlelight vigil in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks Friday, July 20, 2018, in Branson, Mo. One of the company’s duck boats cap-sized Thursday night resulting in over a dozen deaths on Table Rock Lake.
Aspen (US), July 21 (PTI/AP): China is waging a “quiet kind of cold war” against the United States, using all its resources to try to replace America as the leading power in the world, a top CIA expert on Asia has said.
Beijing doesn’t want to go to war, he said, but the current communist govern-ment, under President Xi Jingping, is subtly working on multiple fronts to un-dermine the US in ways that are different than the more well-publicized activities being employed by Russia.
“I would argue ... that what they’re waging against us is fundamentally a cold war a cold war not like we saw during THE Cold War (between the US and the So-viet Union) but a cold war by definition,” Michael Collins, deputy assistant director of the CIA’s East Asia mission centre, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado yesterday.
Rising US-China tension goes beyond the trade dispute playing out in a tariff tit-for-tat between the two nations.
There is concern over China’s perva-sive efforts to steal business secrets and details about high-tech research being conducted in the US. The Chinese mili-tary is expanding and being modernised and the US, as well as other nations, have complained about China’s construction of military outposts on islands in the South China Sea.
“I would argue that it’s the Crimea of the East,” Collins said, referring to Russia’s brash annexation of Ukraine’s Crime-an Peninsula, which was condemned throughout the West.
Collins’ comments track warnings about China’s rising influence issued by others who spoke earlier this week at the security conference. The alarm bells come at a time when Washington needs China’s help in ending its nuclear standoff with North Korea.
On Wednesday, FBI Director Chris-topher Wray said China, from a coun-terintelligence perspective, represents the broadest and most significant threat America faces. He said the FBI has eco-nomic espionage investigations in all 50 states that can be traced back to China.
“The volume of it. The pervasiveness
of it. The significance of it is something that I think this country cannot underes-timate,” Wray said.
National Intelligence Director Dan Coats also warned of rising Chinese ag-gression. In particular, he said, the US must stand strong against China’s effort to steal business secrets and academic research.
Susan Thornton, acting assistant sec-retary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said increasing the public’s aware-ness about the activities of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese students or groups at US universities could be one way to help mitigate potential damage.
“China is not just a footnote to what we’re dealing with with Russia,” Thornton said.
Marcel Lettre, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said China has the second-largest defence budget in the world, the largest standing army of ground forces, the third-largest air force and a navy of 300 ships and more than 60 submarines.
“All of this is in the process of being modernized and upgraded,” said Let-tre, who sat on a panel with Collins and Thornton.
He said China also is pursuing ad-vances in cyber, artificial intelligence, en-gineering and technology, counter-space, anti-satellite capabilities and hypersonic glide weapons. Army Lt Gen Robert Ash-ley, head of the Defence Intelligence Agency, told a congressional committee earlier this year that China is developing long-range cruise missiles some capable of reaching supersonic speeds.
“The Pentagon has noted that the Chi-nese have already pursued a test program that has had 20 times more tests than the US has,” Lettre said.
Franklin Miller, former senior direc-tor for defense policy and arms control at the National Security Council, said China’s weapons developments are em-phasising the need to have a dialogue with Beijing.
“We need to try to engage,” Miller said. “My expectations for successful engage-ment are medium-low, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
Wa s h i n g t o n , Ju l y 2 1 (IANS): Nine of the 17 peo-ple who died when a tour boat sank in a Missouri lake in the US on Thursday were from the same fam-ily, according to the state’s
governor.Governor Michael Par-
son said that he spoke to the woman who has also accused the boat’s captain for putting the lives of the passengers in danger by
suggesting “not to put on life jackets”, the BBC re-ported.
The sightseeing “duck boat” is a modification of a World War II design vessel meant to deliver people
and materials ashore where no port facilities existed.
On Thursday the duck boat on the popular Table Rock Lake was carrying 31 people when it over-turned. Missouri Highway Patrol said the ages of the deceased range from one to 70.
A Fox59 News quoted Tia Coleman who said she lost all her children, her husband, parents-in-law, an uncle, her sister-in-law and her nephew.
“The captain told us ‘Don’t worry about grab-bing the life jackets, you won’t need them,’ so no-body grabbed them be-cause we listened to the captain and he told us to stay seated,” the BBC quot-ed Coleman as saying.
She said by the time the riders tried to grab the life jackets it was too late. “I believe that a lot of people could have been spared.”
The captain was among those who survived. He is now in a hospital. The ves-sel began taking on water shortly before 7 p.m. on
Thursday. Video footage shot by a witness on shore showed two duck boats struggling through choppy waters and spray, the BBC reported.
One of the boats made it to shore but the other was driven back by the wind and eventually over-whelmed.
Missouri law requires all children under the age of seven to wear life jackets on boats, unless they are in the “cabin area”, the BBC said.
The vessel sank in 40ft of water before plunging to a final depth of 80ft.
Sheriff Doug Rader said divers have located the sunken boat and would try to recover it.
Jim Pattison Jr, the tour boat company owner, said the storm appeared to have taken people in the area by surprise. The boat, he told the US media, “shouldn’t have been in the water”.
“Usually the lake is very placid and it’s not a long tour, they go in and kind of around an island and back.
Wa s h i n g t o n , Ju l y 2 1 (IANS): US President Don-ald Trump’s former law-yer Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation between the two men prior to the 2016 election about paying a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with the leader, the media reported.
The FBI seized the se-cret recording made by Co-hen during a raid on his offices earlier this year, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The report said that on the recording, Cohen and Trump discussed paying Karen McDougal, who says she had a year-long affair with Trump starting in 2006,
shortly after he married Melania Trump. The con-versation took place two months ahead of the 2016 election. The Justice De-partment was investigat-ing Cohen’s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
His lawyer Lanny J. Dav-is said in a statement that he was “sensitive” to the ongo-ing investigation but added: “Suffice it to say that when the recording is heard, it will not hurt Cohen.
The Washington Post also reported that the FBI seized a tape of Cohen’s that discussed payments involv-ing McDougal, but it had
some conflicting details. It said that Trump and Cohen were discussing a payment for McDougal’s story about her alleged affair.
American Media Inc. (AMI), the publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, purchased the rights to Mc-Dougal’s story in August 2016 for $150,000 but never ran the piece.
Trump and Cohen dis-cussed buying McDougal’s story from AMI during the recorded conversation, ac-cording to the Post. The newspaper reported that it was unclear why the men did not buy the story but they were reportedly discussing the same amount that the publisher paid McDougal.
Islamabad, July 21 (IANS): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Na-waz are unlikely to be trans-ferred to the Sihala Rest House owing to its lack of proper security arrange-ments needed for the high-profile prisoners, media reports said on Saturday.
The accountability court that had convicted Sharif and his daughter had ordered they be sent to Adiala Jail after they were taken into custody at the Lahore airport and pro-duced before it on July 13.
However, the Islama-bad Chief Commissioner had also ordered shifting of both the father and the daughter and her husband Capt Safdar (retired), who was already in the Adia-la Jail, to the Sihala Rest House situated inside the
Sihala Police Training Col-lege. The authorities said the rest house was not safe for the Sharif family, Dawn News reported.
The rest house has six rooms, all with air con-ditioners, proper beds and wash rooms, but no boundary wall.
A major indication that the Sharifs might not be shifted to the rest house was that the authorities were considering shift-ing some very dangerous prisoners to somewhere else in the province to en-sure proper security for the former Prime Minister and his daughter, the report quoted an Adiala Jail of-ficial as saying.
The official said it was twice or thrice attempted to shift Maryam to Sihala Rest House but she firmly refused.
Washington, July 21 (PTI/AP): The White House said today it “is not considering supporting” a Vladimir Putin-backed call for a referendum in eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Russian president.
Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, earlier revealed that the two leaders had discussed the possibility of a referendum on separatist-leaning eastern Ukraine’s future during their Hel-sinki summit.
National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said agreements between Russia and the Ukrainian government for resolving the conflict in the Don-bas region “do not include any option for referendum”. He added any effort to organise a “so-called referendum” would have “no le-gitimacy”.
The White House announce-ment comes as it laid out the agenda for an autumn summit between Trump and Putin in Washington that would focus on national security. Moscow
signalled openness to a second formal meeting between the two leaders, as criticism of Trump over his first session with his Russian counterpart continued to swirl.
A White House official said the next Trump-Putin meeting would address national security concerns discussed in Helsinki, in-cluding Russian meddling. The of-ficial did not specify if that meant Russia’s interference in US elec-tions. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said the talks would also cover nuclear prolifera-tion, North Korea, Iran and Syria.
Secretary of State Mike Pom-peo said at the United Nations he was “happy that the two leaders of two very important countries are continuing to meet. If that meet-ing takes place in Washington, I think it is all to the good. Those conversations are incredibly im-portant.”
Trump asked National Secu-rity Adviser John Bolton to invite Putin to Washington in the fall to follow up on issues they discussed this week in Helsinki, Finland, the
official said.A White House meeting would
be a dramatic extension of legiti-macy to the Russian leader, who has long been isolated by the West for activities in Ukraine, Syria and beyond and is believed to have interfered in the 2016 presidential election that sent Trump to the presidency. No Russian leader has visited the White House in nearly a decade.
The announcement of a sec-ond summit comes as US officials have been mum on what, if any-thing, the two leaders agreed to in Helsinki during their more than two-hour one-on-one meeting, in which only translators were present. Director of National Intel-ligence Dan Coats revealed earlier he was yet to be briefed on the private session. The Russian gov-ernment has proven to be more forthcoming.
“This issue (of a referendum) was discussed,” Antonov said, adding that Putin made “concrete proposals” to Trump on solutions for the four-year, Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine,
which has killed more than 10,000 people.
He did not elaborate on what Putin’s solutions would be.
The move may be seen as an effort to sidestep European peace efforts for Ukraine and increase the pressure on the Ukrainian gov-ernment in its protracted conflict with pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region.
Trump tweeted on Thursday that he looked forward a “second meeting” with Putin and defended his performance at Monday’s summit, in which the two leaders conferred on a range of issues in-cluding terrorism, Israeli security, nuclear proliferation and North Korea.
“There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems ... but they can ALL be solved!” Trump tweeted.
In Moscow, Antonov said it is important to “deal with the re-sults” of their first summit before jumping too fast into a new one. But he said, “Russia was always open to such proposals. We are ready for discussions on this
subject.” The announcement came as
the US sought to clean up days of confounding post-summit Trump statements on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump’s public doubting of Rus-sia’s responsibility in a joint news conference with Putin provoked withering criticism from Repub-licans as well as Democrats and forced the president to make a rare public admission of error.
Then on Thursday, the White House said Trump “disagrees” with Putin’s offer to allow US ques-tioning of 12 Russians who have been indicted for election inter-ference in exchange for Russian interviews with the former US ambassador to Russia and other Americans the Kremlin accuses of unspecified crimes. Trump initially had described the idea as an “incredible offer”.The White House backtrack came just before the Senate voted overwhelm-ingly against the proposal. It was Congress’ first formal rebuke of Trump’s actions from the summit and its aftermath.
Jerusalem, July 21 (IANS): Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Saturday they had agreed on a cease-fire with Israel after the fatal shooting of an Israeli
soldier spurred intense strikes on Gaza that left four Palestinians dead.
Egypt and the United Nations acted as mediators to arrange the cessation
of hostilities, Efe quoted Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum as saying.
On Friday, Palestinian militiamen killed an Israeli soldier on the Gaza border,
which has been the scene for months of massive demonstrations insisting on the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes in what is now Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded by targeting eight Hamas po-sitions in Gaza, killing three fighters from the Islamist group’s armed wing.
Next came a “massive operation” involving air-strikes and tank fire that destroyed 60 Hamas tar-gets, according to the IDF.
The incidents came on the 17th consecutive Friday of protests as part of what Palestinian groups call the Great March of Return.
The IDF has killed 141 Palestinians since the start of the mobilization on March 30, while Israeli farmers have seen their fields scorched by burning kites and makeshift projec-tiles launched from Gaza.
CIA: China is waging a ‘quiet kind of cold war’ against Us
9 family members among 17 killed in US boat tragedy
Trump taped by lawyer on payment to ex-Playboy model
Nawaz, Maryam unlikely to be shifted to guest house
white House: russia call for Ukraine referendum illegitimate
Hamas announces ceasefire with Israel after day of strife
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Protesters try to move part of the fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel, during a protest east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, July 20, 2018. Israel targeted Hamas positions in Gaza, killing four Palestinians on Friday in a series of air strikes after gunmen shot at soldiers near the border, officials said.
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Paris Hilton never had plastic surgerySocialite Paris Hilton insists she’s never had plastic surgery or Botox but has ‘always been obsessed with skincare’. Opening up during her visit to BeautyCon New York back in April, the hotel heiress told People.com: “I’ve never done any Botox, filler - no plastic surgery in my life”, reports dailymail.co.uk. But the 37-year-old beauty did credit her amazing complexion to something else, revealing: “I’ve always been obsessed with skincare.” The star shared some of her favorite skin secrets, explaining how she’s been using luxury creams since she was only ‘eight years old.’ Her lifelong obsession with potions and products inspired her to create her own Paris Hilton Skincare line. (IANS)
At 85, Willie Nelson’ isn’t let-ting any grass grow under him: The legendary singer and songwriter is releas-ing his second album of
the year in September, a Frank Si-natra tribute outing called “My Way” on Sony’s Legacy label. The 11-track album was produced by Buddy Can-non and Matt Rollings and will be released on Sept. 14.
Along with the announcement came the album’s first single and video, “Summer Wind.”
While Nelson is one of the great-est American songwriters of the 20th century, this album finds him swinging through a set of standards and classics made famous by Sinatra, accompanied by the lush string and horn arrangements that the songs deserve, and in the spirit of Nelson’s classic 1978 album “Stardust,” which found him interpreting material from the Great American Songbook.
According to the announce-ment, Nelson and Sinatra were
close friends and mutual admirers of each other’s work. In the 1980s, the pair performed on the same bill at the Golden Nug-get in Las Vegas and appeared together in a public service an-nouncement for NASA’s Space Foundation.
“I learned a lot about phrasing listening to Frank,” Willie said recently in an interview for AARP magazine (June/July 2018). “He didn’t worry about behind the beat or in front of the beat, or whatever-he could sing it either way, and that’s the feel you have to have.”
Nelson, who cancelled some shows earlier this year due to illness, is back on the road through the end of this year.
Variety.com
Dee Snider has released a lyric video for his new single I Am
The Hurricane.It’s the latest track
taken from the former Twisted Sister frontman’s upcoming album For The Love Of Metal, which is set to arrive on July 27 via Napalm Records.
Speaking about the record, Snider says: “I am beyond excited to be working with one of the world’s leading labels for heavy music, it’s a perfect home for this album! I be-lieve there’s something for every hard rock and metal fan on this record and I cannot wait to unleash it on the world July 27th!”
The album project came about after Hate-breed’s Jamey Jasta chal-lenged Snider to make a metal record – and he
reports he’s delighted at the final results.
Jasta says: “I’m so happy and proud to have been a part of this project. Dee Snider is an Ameri-can original, there is no other voice like his on Earth, his power and pas-sion really shine through on this album.
“Metal brings us all together and with Dee still at the forefront, it’s a
great time to be a fan of heavy music!”
The album will fea-ture a number of guest musicians and vocalists, including ex Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones, Lamb Of God gui-tarist Mark Morton, Joel Grind and Nick Bellmore from Toxic Holocaust and Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz.
Loudersound
Liam Gallagher has told his brother Noel to “stop f*****g about” so
they can get Oasis back together.
The band split in 2009 with the siblings famous for their public bickering. But Liam says that he now forgives his brother and wants them to put their differences aside.
Liam said on Twitter: “Earth to Noel. Listen up rkid, I hear you’re doing gigs where people can’t drink alcohol. That’s the BeZarist thing you’ve done, yet I forgive you now. Let’s get the Big O
back together and stop fucking about. The drinks are on me.”
Liam later tweeted, “C’mon.” But with no re-sponse from Noel, he said: “I’ll take that as a no then. As you were.”
A reunion at this point does seem unlikely, though, after Liam com-pared Noel and his wife Sara MacDonald to serial killers Fred and Rosemary West back in February.
Despite this, book-maker Paddy Power has slashed the odds of Oasis reuniting by the end of 2018.
A spokesperson says: “Oasis were the greatest
band on earth during the 90s. If you consider the number of naff groups from that era which have reformed – I’m looking at you, Vengaboys – we’re surely due a Gallagher reunion.
“Whether they re-form or not, Oasis’s legacy will Live Forever, if only the brothers could stop look-ing back with anger.”
Oasis are currently 3/1 to release a single this year, 8/1 to announce a 2019 tour, 12/1 to have the 2018 Christmas no.1, 16/1 to headline next year’s Glastonbury 2019… and 50/1 to never re-form.
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Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan will clash again -- this time at the box office. The actress’ “Manikarnika:
The Queen Of Jhansi” has been locked for release on January 25, 2019, when Hrithik’s “Super 30” will also release.
The two actors were involved in a row which began after Kan-gana hinted at Hrithik being her “ex-boyfriend”. What followed was an exchange of legal com-plaints and mud-slinging.
Now their films are set to clash on the Republic Day 2019 weekend.
Zee Studios and producer
Kamal Jain on Saturday an-nounced the release date of their magnum opus “Manikarnika
- The Queen of Jhansi”, in which Kangana will bring alive the “extraordinary tale of strength
and valour that inspired Indians across generations”. The film is directed by Krish.
Hrithik’s “Super 30”, mean-while”, will see him take on the role of real life mathematics wiz-ard Anand Kumar, who teaches 30 meritorious and talented candidates each year from eco-nomically backward sections for the entrance examination for the Indian Institute of Technology. The actor has been upbeat about playing a man from Bihar, and flaunts a simpleton’s look for the movie. It is backed by Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Films and directed by Vikas Bahl.
IANS
James Gunn will no longer direct “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” ater he was fired by
Disney Studios as the filmmaker’s controversial tweets on pedophilia and rape resurfaced. Actor Dave Bautista came to his defence.
The move to fire Gunn came after con-servative personalities resurfaced old tweets in which the director, an outspoken critic of US President Donald Trump, had joked about the topics, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The offensive atti-tudes and statements dis-covered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our stu-
dio’s values, and we have severed our business rela-tionship with him,” Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a state-ment.
Conservative website The Daily Caller dug up the social media posts, which were mostly posted in 2008 and 2009. Soon after, conservative per-sonalities were tweeting to followers to confront Gunn at Comic-Con.
However, Gunn is-sued a statement say-ing he “regretted” the tweets in question and stressed that “they don’t reflect the person I am today”, reported The Hollywood Reporter.
“I understand and accept the busi-
ness decisions taken today,” Gunn added.
However, “Guard-ians of the Galaxy” star
Bautista, tweeted: “I’m
not okay with what’s hap-pening to him. I will have more to say but for right now all I will say is this... James Gunn is one of the most loving, caring, good natured people I have ever met.
“He’s gentle and kind and cares deeply for people and animals. He’s made mistakes. We all have. I’m not okay with what’s happening to him.”
Gunn had been writing the script for the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” film, and the movie was expected to begin shooting in Atlanta in the fall for an expected 2020 release date, though Marvel Studios had never officially announced the date.
IANSActress Jennifer Connelly is join-ing Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick”.
“Oblivion” helmer Joe Kosinski is directing the film, a sequel to the 1986 original. Jerry Bruckhe-imer, who produced the first film with the late Don Simpson, will produce the film with Cruise and Sky-dance CEO David Ellison, reports variety.com.
This latest project will be set in a world of drone technology and will explore the end of the era of dogfighting, with Cruise portraying a flight instruc-tor. In late May, Cruise posted a photo of himself in front of what appeared to be a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Variety reported on July 3 that “Only the Brave” star Miles Teller had been tapped to play the son of the Goose character and Maverick’s new protege. Goose was played by An-thony Edwards as the co-pilot to Cruise’s Maverick character in the original.
Val Kilmer will reprise his role as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in the sequel, which is set to be released on July 12, 2019.
IANS
“The Reckoning”, a documentary which recounts the fall of producer Harvey Weinstein and the rise
of the #MeToo movement, has been ac-quired by Vertical Entertainment for dis-tribution in the US. The company is planning to release in the film in the fourth quarter of this year.
The film is directed by Barry Avrich and had its world premiere at Toronto’s recent Hot Docs Film Festival.
A follow-up to Avrich’s 2011 film “Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project”, “The Reckoning” focuses on the sexual harassment charges that have been levelled against Weinstein, and ex-plores the phenom-enon of Hollywood’s casting couch, apart from touch-ing on other men like Bill
O’Reilly, Louis C.K., James Toback and US President Donald Trump, said thehol-lywoodreporter.com.
“’The Reckoning’ is a powerful and timely account of widespread harass-ment in the film industry and a stark reminder that there is much work to be
done in confronting the systems of power that got us here,” Rich Goldberg, co-president of Vertical Entertainment, said in a statement announcing the acquisition.
“Barry Avrich’s film does the important job of shining a light on the experiences of
those impacted so that we can collectively
move toward a brighter future,” he added.
Goldberg said the film is both a tribute to the brave women who had the cour-age to stand up to some very power-ful and frightening men and anthem
of required change. “Unless we keep
the conversation going, the danger of status quo threatens everyone,” Avrich added.
IANS
Willie Nelson to release Frank Sinatra tribute album ‘My Way’
Twisted Sister ex Dee Snider kicks up a storm in new lyric video
Liam Gallagher tells Noel to ‘stop f****** about’ in bid to reform Oasis
Kangana’s ‘Manikarnika...’ to clash with Hrithik’s ‘Super 30’
James Gunn fired as ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ director Jennifer Connelly joins Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
Documentary on Weinstein’s fall may release year-end
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Gabriel Jesus
Cesar Ferrando
Zale Neikha, seen here with department officers and village leaders, at the proposed site that has been chosen for development of an outdoor stadium at Chuchuyimpang village in Mokokchung.
David Warner
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Manchester City midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko, left, battles with Borussia Dortmund defender Herbert Bockdorn during the first half of an International Champions Cup tournament soccer match on Friday, July 20 in Chicago.
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Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech poses below the indicating board after setting a new women’s 3000m steeplechase World Record during the IAAF Diamond League Athletics meeting at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco on Friday, July 20.
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Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya, left, celebrate the dismissal of South Africa’s Dale Steyn as non-striker Lungi Ngidi watches during the second day of their second test cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Saturday, July 21.
Dortmund ease past Man City in Champions Cup opener
Chepkoech smashes women’s steeplechase world record in MonacoWarner returns to action in Australia; eyes national recall
Sri Lanka build domineering lead over S Africa in 2nd Test
Criticism on Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus unfair, says Ederson
Jamshedpur FC appoint Cesar Ferrando as head coach
Legislator visits proposed outdoor stadium at Chuchuyimpang villlage
Chicago, July 21 (PTI/AFP): Pep Guardiola’s start to his pre-season campaign end-ed in defeat as Borussia Dortmund captain Mario Gotze’s first half penalty was enough to see off the Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 at Sol-dier Field in Chicago.
Guardiola was able to call on the likes of new signing Riyad Mahrez and German Leroy Sane but his otherwise highly inexpe-rienced, young team were unable to get the better of a Dortmund side who have already played one game this summer and looked far sharper in the opening match of this year’s Inter-national Champions Cup tournament.
Gotze’s winner came in the 28th minute when American international Christian Pulisic was hauled down in the box al-lowing the midfielder who famously scored the win-ning goal in the 2014 World Cup final to beat Claudio Bravo.
Mahrez showed flashes of his quality yet Guardiola will be disappointed about the lack of cutting edge on show. With the bulk of his Premier League title winning squad enjoying an extended break after
their exertions at the World Cup, it was a vastly inexperi-enced squad sent out by the Spaniard at Soldier Field.
Mahrez, the USD 75 million signing from Leices-ter, made his debut while the precocious young Eng-lish midfielder Phil Foden also started.
There was a healthy crowd of 34,629 inside Sol-dier Field and although a young City side held their own early on, Dortmund created the better chanc-es with Gotze pulling the strings together with Pulisic.
Mahrez was City’s best player, a decent run and
cross midway through the first half showcased his at-tacking threat.
But on 28 minutes, the Germans were ahead. Alex Zinchenko, who is set to leave the club before the start of the English domes-tic season, brought down the lively Pulisic in the box
Monaco, July 21 (IANS): Ke-nya’s Beatrice Chepkoech grabbed the spotlight as she shattered women’s 3000m steeplechase world record at the IAAF Diamond League meeting here.
The 27-year-old Chep-koech, who had never tast-ed a medal at previous ma-jor tournaments before, on Friday clocked a stunning 8 minutes 44.32 seconds, bettering previous record set by Ruth Jebet of Bahrain by over eight seconds.
Jebet posted 8:52.78 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris in 2016, re-ports Xinhua news agency.
“I wanted to break the world record. That was the plan from the begin-ning of the season. I was aware the biggest chance would be at Monaco due to weather, crowds and the
whole environment. And this plan worked well,” said Chepkoech, who is the first Kenyan woman to hold the 3000m steeplechase world record.
“I felt strong during the race. I was thinking maybe I can break 8:50 but not at all was I dreaming about 8:44. I’m sure this time still could be improved. Maybe my next target could be to run under 8:40,” she added at Stade Louis II.
China’s high jumper Wang Yu finished runner-up at 2.30m, before failing on his three attempts at 2.33m.
Wo r l d s i l ve r m e d -allist Danil Lysenko, an Authorized Neutral Ath-lete (ANA), already won the event with a first-time clearance of 2.33m. He also made it at 2.40m, ty-
Sydney, July 21 (Reuters): Disgraced Australia open-ing batsman David Warner returned to action on home soil on Saturday and said he was desperate to force his way back into the national side when his ball-tam-pering suspension ended next year.
Warner was handed a 12-month ban from first class cricket for his role in a ball-tampering scandal during Australia’s test series in South Africa in March, but is allowed to play off-shore and at lower levels of domestic cricket.
The former test vice-captain returned to the field in a recent Twenty20 tour-nament in Canada and fol-lowed that up with his first appearance in Australia on Saturday in a limited-overs competition in Darwin.
“I’m here to play crick-et and I love doing that,” he told reporters after he scored 36 runs from 32 balls for the City Cyclones in the Strike League.
“I wouldn’t be here to-day and continue to keep working my backside off to keep scoring runs for each team that I play for if I didn’t love it. I wouldn’t be here, I’d probably retire.”
Warner is also “100 per-cent” committed to return-ing to the national side once his ban ends, if he contin-
ues to score runs and merits selection.
“I’ll be putting my hand up as much as I can,” added the 31-year-old, who said during the height of the furore that he did not know if he had an international future.
“This (competition in Darwin) is just a little step-ping stone to continue my progress to enable myself to keep scoring as many runs as I can for every single team I play for in the next eight months.”
Warner’s national team mate Cameron Bancroft, who was banned for nine months for using sandpa-per to rough up the ball, is also playing in Darwin.
Many pundits pointed the blame for the incident in Cape Town at Warner for directing the inexperienced Bancroft to alter the surface of the ball, in a scandal that also resulted in a 12-month ban for captain Steve Smith.
Warner, however, said he and Bancroft were still on good terms as they worked their way through the suspensions and had socialised together in Dar-win.
“He bought me break-fast this morning,” Warner said.
“I bought him dinner the other night and we’re good mates.”
Rio de Janeiro, July 21 (IANS): Goalkeeper Ed-erson has leapt to the defence of his Brazil and Manchester City team-mate Gabriel Jesus after the striker’s disappointing performances at the FIFA World Cup.
Jesus failed to score in Russia despite starting in each of Brazil’s five match-es as the team’s designated center-forward, reports Xinhua news agency.
Ederson, who was a member of the Selecao’s World Cup squad but had not played, said Jesus has been unfairly criticised following the team’s quar-terfinal exit.
“I think that what he needs to do now is rest and try to forget about what happened,” Ederson said. “He is young but also has experience in the national team.
“He was unlucky and
and Gotze beat Bravo from the spot before Alexander Isak almost made it two soon after.
Jack Harrison should have done better just be-fore the interval when he miscued a shot from close range and them Mahrez forced a great save from Dortmund keeper Marwin Hitz.
Nevertheless, Guardio-la would have been all too aware of his side’s lack of killer instinct.
Former Etihad starlet Jadon Sancho, who quit the Premier League club for Dortmund last August following a fall-out with Guardiola, was introduced in the second half and be-gan promisingly.
Joe Hart, the former England keeper, was mak-ing his first City appearance since August 2016 but it was opposite number Hitz who was almost beaten on 55 minutes when another Mahrez set-piece flew just past the post.
The Algerian’s cute pass set Lukas Nmecha through on 70 minutes but his fin-ish was lacking before Hart produced an excellent point blank save to deny Mahmoud Dahoud. Dort-mund, however, held firm to seal a deserved win.
a goal was the only thing missing because his work rate was very good and his positioning too. Just because he didn’t score, everybody is taking aim at him. If Brazil had won the World Cup, nobody would be criticizing him.”
Ederson said his Brazil
teammates were “incon-solable” after their 2-1 loss to Belgium in the last eight of football’s biggest tourna-ment.
“There were no words that could have comforted the players but we have to try to keep our heads up,” the 24-year-old said.
Jamshedpur, July 21 (IANS): Spaniard Cesar Ferrando was on Saturday appointed as the new head coach of Indian Super League (ISL) franchise Jamshedpur FC.
Cesar was previously with Spanish club La Nu-cia. He has coached teams such as Atletico de Madrid, Valencia B, Elche, Albacete (La Liga & Segunda Division Clubs).
Cesar also possesses experience in coaching an
Asian team with his stint in Malaysia where he man-aged Johur Darul Takzim F.C. in 2013-14.
During his player ca-reer, Cesar plied his trade as a midfielder and represent-ed top Spanish clubs such as Valencia, Salamanca, Sabadell, Alzira (La Liga & Segunda Division Clubs).
“Our main objective will be to give our best every day at every training ses-sion and
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): Advisor Youth Resources & Sports, Zale Neikha along with the department of-ficers and village leaders visited the new proposed site for development of Outdoor Stadium at Chu-
chuyimpang village under Mokokchung district on July 21. This was stated in a press statement received here on Saturday.
The advisor interacted with the officers and staffs of District Sports Office and
Youth Resources office Mo-kokchung before visiting the project site wherein he encouraged and chal-lenged every officer and staff to work with sincerity and renewed dedication to bring a change in moulding
ing the world lead set by world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar.
Olympic and world women’s 800m champion
Caster Semenya prevailed in 1:54.60, while being seemingly on track to chal-lenging the world record of 1:53.28 set 35 years ago.
“It was just fantastic, only the last 100 meters were a little off for me,” said Semenya. “I was not think-ing about the world record
Colombo, July 21 (AFP): Sri Lanka surged to 151 for 3 in their second innings on Saturday -- a 365-run over-all lead -- as they sought a whitewash triumph over South Africa in their two-Test series.
After their spinners had skittled out South Africa for just 124 in their first in-nings, Sri Lankan open-ers Danushka Gunathilaka and Dimuth Karunaratne put on a quickfire 91 to set the foundation for another strong score on the Co-lombo pitch.
Gunathilaka was Sri Lanka’s primary aggressor, hitting six fours and two sixes in his 61 off 68 balls after tea on the second day.
Keshav Maharaj struck twice to remove Gunathila-ka and Dhananjaya da Silva, for a duck, but Karunaratne progressed smoothly at the
today and actually it is not on my mind.”
American rising sprint-er Noah Lyles kept his un-beaten record at this year’s Diamond League intact after triumphing in men’s 200m with a world-leading time of 19.65 seconds.
“It gives me confidence in what I can do next. Now I’m going to the Birming-ham Diamond League, and finally Zurich to hope-fully get a win,” said Lyles, who is set to take one place in world’s sprint in “post-Bolt” era.
In the men’s events, double Olympic and triple world champion Christian Taylor of the United States was crowned in triple jump at 17.86m. Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot set this year’s fastest time of 3:28.41 to win the 1500m event.
other end to reach 59 while Angelo Mathews had 12.
The hosts built up their domineering lead at the end of a day in which their 10th wicket pair added valuable runs to build a first innings of 338. South Africa were then routed by Sri Lanka’s spinners with Akila Danan-jaya taking five for 52.
Dananjaya and Ranga-na Herath frustrated South Africa through the morning session as they added 61 runs to the overnight total.
Left-arm spinner Ke-shav Maharaj eventually dismissed Herath to end the innings, and complete a haul of nine for 129 -- the second-best for a South Africa bowler and the best since the country made a post-apartheid return to Tests in 1991.
But Sri Lanka’s 338 was always going to be a chal-
lenge and Dananjaya, Her-ath and Dilruwan Perera then tore through the South African batting, already ex-posed by their defeat in the first Test in Galle.
Dananjaya took his second five-wicket haul in Tests while Herath and Per-era shared the remaining five South African wickets. Stand-in captain Suranga Lakmal was not required to deliver a single ball.
Only South Africa cap-tain Faf du Plessis and wick-etkeeper Quinton de Kock showed resistance, making 48 off 51 balls and 32 off 31 respectively.
South Africa lasted only 34.5 overs, after Sri Lanka had batted for 104.1 overs in their first innings.
Dananjaya, left out for the first Test at Galle, struck with his second ball of the match, having Dean Elgar
caught at gully with a turn-ing offbreak.
He got Theunis de Bruyn edging behind in the next over, and Perera picked up the South Africa middle order to finish on four for 40.
The only batsman to put any pressure on Sri Lanka was du Plessis, who attacked the spinners after lunch, sweeping with aban-don as he struck eight fours and a six.
Du Plessis and Hashim Amla put on the best part-nership of 55, but Perera dismissed them both within four overs of each other. Despite de Kock’s aggressive innings, the remainder of South Africa’s batting were easy meat when Dananjaya came back.
Du Plessis left the field at the end of the day with a worried look on his face.
make the team com-pete at the highest level every game we play,” Cesar said in a statement from the eastern football club.
“We will focus and pre-pare game by game as it will be a final with hard work, passion, sacrifice, effort, team work and humility.
Success for me in this season will be to play good football, implement a strong and unique football model to make the team more competitive in the league and let the support-ers enjoy the faith they have put in my team, my staff and me,” he added.
Jamshedpur FC direc-tor Sunil Bhaskaran was elated at the announce-ment. “We are delighted to welcome Cesar Ferrando to Jamshedpur FC.
We are extremely con-fident that he is the right person for the job and will work to deliver trophies for our fans and bring glory to Jamshedpur.”
and uplifting the upcoming generation.
He also visited the Im-kongmeren Sports Com-plex and assured that the immediate needs of repairs and renovation of the youth centre will be initiated be-fore the Mini Hornbill fes-tival and Tsungremmong festival.
Later the advisor in-spected the new project site at Chuchuyimpang village where he advised and instructed the contrac-tor to develop the Outdoor Stadium as per the actual technical specification with quality workmanship. He
also said that the new sta-dium will benefit the people of Mokokchung town and its adjoining villages as an auxiliary play field.
Pointing out that the Imkongmeren Sports Com-plex is the only venue where every event are held, he said the new project will add another play field to Mo-kokchung and expressed hope the new project will greatly serve the people. In this regard, he directed the officers and contractors to monitor that the project is executed properly and completed at stipulated time.
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The Galle stadium in the south of the island is hallowed among cricket fans the world over because of its stunning setting next to a 17th century Dutch fort.
Shurhosul Zhotso (red) in action against Twenty XI FC during their league match at the Kohima local ground on Saturday.
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Kivi Zhimomi being felicitated by Jacob Zhimomi, right, on July 21 after the former was selected to the U-23 Indian national football team.
Members of Catalysts for Change seen here during a press conference on Saturday, July 21.
Africa looks for answers after disastrous World Cup
Sri Lanka's famed Galle cricket stadium faces stumps
KFL: Shurhosul's brace helps Sechu Zubza beat Twenty XI 3-0
Kivi Zhimomi felicitated for his selection to U-23 Indian National football team
Summer Challenger cup to start from July 23
Spanish rider Fraile wins 14th stage of Tour de France
Sebastian Vettel earns pole for F1 German Grand Prix
Rabat, July 21 (Reuters): African football will conduct a soul-searching session at a two-day symposium in Morocco after all five of the continent’s sides failed to get over the first hurdle at the World Cup.
Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria and Senegal were all eliminated in the group phase in Russia, leaving Africa without a representa-tive in the knockout rounds for the first time since the 1982 finals in Spain.
Coaches and officials of the five countries will discuss the disappointing results at a debrief in Rabat organised by the Confed-eration of African Football and the Moroccan Football Federation on Sunday and Monday.
“It was a disappoint-ment for the African teams and the African continent,” said former Nigeria interna-
tional Emmanuel Amunike, who was part of FIFA’s tech-nical study group analysing the World Cup and will be at the symposium.
“A lot of people were expecting African teams to progress b e y o n d w h a t t h e y h a v e d o n e p re v i -o u s l y, but un-fortu-nate-l y i t didn’t mate-rialise.
“The truth is that we all are aware that football has developed a lot and will continue to change, and we in Africa, if we don’t em-brace the responsibility and see how we can develop our
youth, will continue to live on dreams.
“I can tell you that there is a lot of raw talent but raw talent, without polishing
them, will not give you a result,” he said.
F I F A President
G i a n n i Infanti-no said l a s t w e e k t h a t Africa’s
f a i l u re t o get a
t e a m p a s t t h e
f i r s t ro u n d had been discussed by the game’s top officials and was a concern.
“You need a little luck to get past the first round at a tournament like the World Cup. Senegal, Mo-
rocco and Nigeria all played very good football. But this is a concern and we have been talking about it with the president of CAF and we will intervene,” he told reporters in Moscow.
“To have success on the pitch, you have to do well off it and it is essential to work with the African federations to ensure everything is do-ing well with their organisa-tion.”
Egypt were the first African country to play at a World Cup in 1934 and since 1970 there has been a consistent African pres-ence at the tournament, rising to six teams in 2010 when South Africa hosted the finals.
But none have reached the final four and only three African sides have got as far as the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010.
Our CorrespondentKohima, July 21 (EMN): Shurhosul Zhotso scored two goals as Sechu Zub-za defeated Twenty XI FC Viswema 3-0 to register their first league match at the ongoing 2nd Kohima Football League here at the Kohima local ground on Saturday.
The win puts Sechu Zubza above Twenty XI in second place of the Kohima Football League table. In two matches, Zubza has four points with a draw and a win, while Twenty XI tem-porarily in third place with a win and a loss.
Zubza’s on-loan striker Petivizo Kezieo was guilty of wasting the goal scor-ing chances as he failed to find the back of the net and Zhotso came to the rescue to score a brace and give the team the three points they deserved.
In the match, Zubza team opened the scoring in the 22nd minute from the keeper Kevitho Neikha’s blunder for Shiirhosiil Zhot-
so to score.Twenty XI on the other
hand were dominant in the midfield area but failed to connect with the strikers
as Zudza’s defenders de-fended the score.
Playmaker Khiuwang-bo Kaurinthah was in-volved in the chances cre-
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): An initiative of "Catalysts for Change" (C4C), the Summer Challenger Cup 2018 is all set to begin from July 23 till August 3rd at Medziphema local ground.
According to a press note received here on Saturday, 25 teams will be participating in the tournament with
teams from as far as Kohima, Dimapur and neighbouring villages. The chief patron of the tournament, Zhaleo Rio, Deputy Speaker, NLA will declare the tournament open at the inaugural function scheduled for 2 pm.
The winner of the tournament will walk home richer with a cash prize of
INR 50,000 and the runners up will re-ceive an amount of INR 30,000 stated the note.
There are individual prizes for best player, highest scorer and best goalkeeper. The tournament will be in knockout format while state referees will conduct the tournament.
Mende (France), July 21 (AP): Spanish rider Omar Fraile won the 14th stage of the Tour de France by burst-ing from a group of break-away riders on the finishing climb in the Massif Central on Saturday.
Geraint Thomas in the yellow jersey, second-placed Chris Froome, and the other overall contend-ers were in a pack some 20 minutes behind and had not finished yet.
Fraile had time to cel-ebrate before crossing the line, finishing six seconds ahead of Julian Alaphilippe, the Frenchman wearing the polka-dot jersey awarded to the Tour's best climber.
Jasper Stuyven of Bel-gium finished third, also six
seconds back, and three-time world champion Peter Sagan came fourth.
It was the first career victory at the Tour for Fraile, who rides for the Astana team. The hilly 188-kilome-ter (117-mile) route from Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux to Mende in the Massif Central passed through the Ardeche gorges, which fea-tures cave paintings dating back some 36,000 years.
Stage 15 on Sunday from Millau to Carcassonne is another hilly leg before the race's second rest day on Monday. Then come the Pyrenees and a possibly decisive individual time trial in the penultimate stage before the traditional finish in Paris next weekend.
Dimapur, July 21 (EMN): The Minister for Public Health Engineering De-partment (PHED), Jacob Zhimomi on Saturday fe-licitated Kivi Zhimomi on being selected in the Indian National Football Team (U-23).
Zhimomi while con-gratulating Kivi said that the youngster is the first Naga football player after a gap of seven decades to secure a position in the national football team after Dr. T Ao, Captain of Indian team in the London Olympics in 1948.
The minister also laud-ed Kivi Zhimomi for being the first Naga to score in the prestigious Indian Hero League while playing for Gokulam Kerela Football Club and also the first Naga footballer to be picked by one of the ISL franchise team Northeast United FC earlier this year.
It is informed that Kivi will leave for Delhi by the end of this month to attend
Colombo, July 21 (AFP): England could be the last team to take on Sri Lanka at its famed Galle stadi-um, considered one of the world's most picturesque cricket grounds, when they tour in November.
This is because the stadium with views of the sparkling blue Indian Ocean could be demol-ished because its pavilion stand violates heritage laws protecting a 17th century Dutch fort, according to the government.
Cultural Affairs Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe told parliament Friday that the fort risks losing UNESCO World Heritage status be-cause of unauthorised con-struction, including Galle's 500-seat pavilion.
"We have to decide if we want to remain in the World Heritage list or keep the pavilion," Rajapakshe said.
The Galle stadium in the south of the island is
hallowed among cricket fans the world over because of its stunning setting and because it is here that the Sri Lankan team is often at its most formidable.
The hosts have won a majority of matches played there since 1998, with the strong winds favouring their wily spinners.
The world's highest Test wicket taker, Sri Lanka's spin wizard Muttiah Mu-ralitharan, took his 800th scalp against India at Galle in 2010. Six years earlier, Australia's legendary Shane Warne took his 500th Test wicket there. The first Test at the venue was in June 1998 and Sri Lanka won that match against New Zealand by an innings and 16 runs.
Last week, Sri Lanka won their first Test against South Africa in Galle by 278 runs with two days to spare, with the Proteas all out for a record low 73 in the second innings. The Galle pavil-
ated for Zubza team and the 44th minute, he was fault by Twenty XI defender outside the 18 yard box to award a free kick; Kekhriel-etuo Tsira took the free kick to score in the 44th min to end the first half 2-0.
In the second half, Zudza’s defenders looked comfortable as Twenty XI team failed to breach the defensive line.
But it was Shiirhosiil Zhotso who scored again in the 50th minute from a goalkeeping error as Kaurinthah corner kick was misjudged by the keeper when the deflection went into Zhotso to tap in his second goal for Sechu Sub-za in the 50th minute to make it 3-0.
Best chance came for Twenty Xi came when Zevi-to Khizho was fed by a long pass but goalie Rajusituo Nagi managed to divert the ball to keep a clean sheet at the end of the match.
Monday’s matchUnited 16 FC vs Vanguard
FC at 2 pm
ion was built in 2008, four years after the grounds were devastated by the Indian
Ocean tsunami which killed at least 31,000 people in the country.
No bulldozers for nowThe fort was begun by the Portuguese, who colonised
the island in 1505. However many of the buildings at the site were built by the Dutch,
who drove out the Portu-guese in 1640.
The British captured Galle in 1796, but did not make any significant altera-tions to the structures in the walled city. It is now a key tourist attraction.
Sri Lanka's Sports Min-ister Faiszer Musthapha said Friday there will be no immediate demolition.
"We want to maintain the World Heritage status for the fort. We will work out an alternative" for the cricket stadium, he added.
Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayaka noted that UNESCO did not object to the cricket grounds, but wanted unau-thorised structures around it removed, including the two-storey pavilion.
The building, named after former president Ma-hinda Rajapakse, obstructs the view of the fort from the main Galle road.
Sri Lanka's 1996 World
Cup winning skipper Ar-juna Ranatunga suggested Friday that the authorities could dismantle the offend-ing pavilion and erect tem-porary stands when Tests were being played.
"We need to keep both the heritage status for the fort and at the same time play international matches at Galle," Ranatunga, now a minister in the current government, told AFP.
He said a proposal 10 years ago to play day and night matches at Galle -- floated while he was the interim head of Sri Lan-ka Cricket -- was shelved because setting up lights would have violated build-ing codes in the area.
His cabinet colleague Rajapkshe noted that the government plans to build another stadium in Galle, two hours' drive south of Colombo. "We could have another cricket grounds in Galle soon," he added.
the national coaching camp which is from July 28 to August 17. After which he will leave for Australia along
with the national team for an exposure trip.
The Indian team will be defending the South Asian
Football Federation Cup (SAFF) championship from September 4-15, 2018 in Bangladesh.
Hockenheim (Germany), July 21 (IANS): Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel of Germany earned pole position on Saturday for the Formula One German Grand Prix.
Vettel, currently first in the 2018 driver standings, set a new lap record at the Hockenheimring circuit with a time of one minute, 11.212 seconds, reports Efe.
This was Vettel's 55th career pole position, and gives him a strong op-portunity to increase his eight-point advantage in the driver standings over his main rival, defending champion Lewis Hamilton of Britain (Mercedes).
Spain's Omar Fraile Matarranz celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 14th stage of the Tour de France cycling race with start in Saint-Paul Trois-Chateaux and Mende, France on Saturday, July 21.
Hamilton will start Sunday's race from the 14th spot, after being forced to quit the first qualifying session due to a
suspected hydraulic problem.Vettel, a four-time world cham-
pion, will be joined in the first row by Valtteri Bottas of Finland (Mercedes).
Ferrari's other driver, Kimi Rai-kkonen of Finland, placed third and is to start from the second row beside Dutch driver Max Verstap-pen (Red Bull), who finished fourth.
Spain's Fernando Alonso (McLaren), a two-time world champion, was eliminated from the second qualifying round and will start the race from the 11th spot.
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